Focusing solely on Manhattan south of 60th Street, the city's business core, a group called the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council has tracked a comparable post-boom decline.
Australia is doing nothing comparable with a boom that Cleary describes as a "once-in-a-century opportunity".
Just look at all the people turning out to watch it: crowds at Championship level are unexpectedly buoyant, comparable to the boom period of the mid-1960s.
The comparable-sized fracking boom in Pennsylvania has had hardly any effect on the state's overall employment picture, because, in the end, not that many jobs are involved.
You see things like -- boom, boom, boom, boom!
Nothing comparable to the telecoms boom of the 1990s is on the horizon, notes Klaus Deutsch of Deutsche Bank Research.
Before the recession that began in 2007, real spending on services had never grown less than 4.2 percent over a comparable period — whether in boom or bust.
This might come as a surprise in Britain, where we hear a lot about the "new India", while Pakistan – which has seen a comparable, if more limited, boom – is generally portrayed as the poor, backward neighbour, afflicted by Islamist terrorism, insurgency and floods.
She doesn't, however, believe that today's boom is comparable to that of the 1990s.
In science fiction one would have expected more of a boom; yet nothing appeared comparable to Jules Verne.
