Whether their research can be used to manufacture interest — hold your party at a certain space, and boom, buzz! — or help city planners harness social convergence to create artist-friendly neighborhoods remains to be seen.
Certain sectors are booming, not least livestock, money transfer and telecommunications.
Interest in belly dancing, particularly among women of a certain age, is booming.
In the West Midlands business in certain sectors is booming, but the employment figures are not as straightforward as they may at first seem, as Jon Kay explains.
It was ironic that I go out doing this show, looking in certain hotspots, and then boom!
Wal-Mart enters a particular market, overwhelms competitors and provides a short-lived boom for certain noncompeting retailers nearby.
Five new academic concentrations, like a bachelor's degree in computer applications, have been introduced to train students for the kind of jobs that directly correlate "with a boom in certain sectors of the Indian economy," the author notes.
What is certain is that the boom years brought a rapid growth in breeding, and that tens of thousands of people who could not previously afford a horse or pony entered the market, many of them keeping their animals in gardens, on fenced-off building sites or on common land like the Dunsink tip.
There may not be a widespread slide in prices, but certain areas that have boomed, such as Stamford, could get hit hard if interest rates rise, he said.
