His fund-raising is steady and robust — he's not working off the normal boom-bust business model that guides the other campaigns.
In other words, the global recession has only interrupted the "supercycle" of which many analysts used to speak, during which the normal boom-and-bust cycle of oil and other commodities would give way to a protracted period of high prices, as ever-growing demand from emerging markets swallowed everything the extractive industries could produce.
Surrealistically normal traffic boomed obliviously by in the West Street corridor between the atrium and ground zero.
"The current causes normal oil booms to fail and that was the main problem in the Gulf oil spill," he said.
ISM new orders and global trade figures indicate the "new normal" is global boom.
A strong bounceback is normal for California; its booms and busts have historically been more extreme than America's.
Under normal conditions, turtles regularly have boom and bust years.
At the height of the boom, she says, normal families couldn't afford a nice place this close to Washington, DC.
One factor that could keep consumer spending relatively strong, however, is a continued belief that the boom was a normal time, not an extraordinary one.
The tale of this young company, which produces innovative wireless networking systems, offers a glimpse of how the financial crisis has swept through Russia's budding entrepreneurial culture and crashed like cold water onto young workers who had come to see the boom times as normal.
At weekends they emerge from their blue tarpaulin tents (with shoes neatly placed in front, as is the Japanese custom) and queue for soup and rice.Like many of Japan's homeless, Kiyoshi lived a normal life during Japan's boom years, working in a restaurant.
