Their frustration echoed that of Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and other state officials, who complained that BP was too slow in providing containment boom, skimmers and other supplies.
What is detrimental to one area can provide a boom to another, and that was the case this year in Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos.
"When I got back from that meeting, I remember very clearly telling BP, 'You have got to provide this boom.' I said, 'You need to begin ramping up your shoreline strategy.
In the 1930s, the military base was expanded, providing a boom for local businesses - including prostitution.
The war-time economy provided a boom to Indiana's industry and agriculture, which led to more urbanization throughout the 1920s.
Mr. Parker provides the repaired boom in increments of 500, 2,500 or even 4,000 feet per day as the oil eddies shoreward in fits and starts.
It's a simple change that could have profound effects—especially as the shale drilling boom provides abundant new supplies of natural gas.
While it provides insights into booms and their ending, it fails to explain why things must end quite so badly, or how to escape when they do.
Wal-Mart enters a particular market, overwhelms competitors and provides a short-lived boom for certain noncompeting retailers nearby.
A probing look at a so-called economic panacea, Convention Center Follies dissects the inner workings of America's convention center boom and provides valuable lessons in urban government, local business growth, and civic redevelopment.
