The Seattle region has had its share of both boom days and busts, in part because of the fortunes of Boeing, the mammoth aircraft manufacturer that still provides more than five times as many jobs locally as Microsoft.
I love myth-busting, probably in part because I like to think that I'm in the same business myself (though focusing on different myths).
Mr. Murdock's tourism push had been a bust, she wrote, "in part because we have very little water on Lanai.
Then, during the bust, household formation slowed, in part because more young people lived with parents.
A drug bust conducted in June in part because of the NYPD's counter-terrorism surveillance of a Brooklyn mosque suggests that the spying continues even after the departure of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
But these start-ups have since been flattened by the dotcom bust faster than other firms, in part because most of their customers were other start-ups fighting for survival.Development of Linux is increasingly driven by large computer makers, such as HP and IBMTo stay afloat, open-source start-ups such as VA are now having to become more proprietary.
The home security and monitoring industry that hasn't been able to bust beyond 20% market penetration, in part because most consumers don't want to pay high installation fees, sign an annual contract and pay $50 a month.
His direct investments in "new" technologies and industries have mostly been a bust, in large part because China dropped the price floor on green technology.
Indeed, a number of forecasters are now predicting that the expansion, which began in 2009 and has remained subpar ever since, might prove to be far more durable than the typical five-to-six-year growth cycle, in part because of the absence of the traditional boom, then bust pattern.
In New York, where possession of less than an ounce of marijuana was decriminalised some years ago, marijuana drug busts have not declined; they've skyrocketed – from 5,000 to roughly 30,000 annually – in part, because police find the practice so lucrative.
