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...hills are alive with the sound of music -- and folks from Florida to Hawaii have had just about enough of it. Many communities have decided that so-called boom cars, with their high-power and multispeaker stereo systems, pose an increasing threat to health, safety and sanity. The response: local laws tailored to tone down the boom-car boom...
...think you can foretell the shape of the city of tomorrow, but what $ you can say is that the city of the 19th century reached its pinnacle, its apogee, in the 20th, in the 1980s, with an enormous building boom all over the world. This also happened in the great cathedral-building era a millennium ago. But nobody would build a monastery for 600 Benedictine monks anymore. I think we have seen the last outburst of the city as we know...
...boom-and-bust cycles are sharply affecting U.S. housing prices, which reflect regional economic health. In Houston, gone are the bad-old-days of the mid-1980s when U-Haul trucks streamed out of town as unemployment rose above 12%. A combination of stable oil prices and the arrival of new businesses has sparked a rebound in Houston home values. At the same time, Northeast housing prices are sinking and the explosive growth of California home prices has begun to cool...
BUSINESS: Who's in a boom? Who's in a gloom...
...metaphor through which Moore explores several serious social, political and economic issues is his hometown, Flint, Mich., a boom-and-bust factory community that hit bottom again in the mid-'80s, when its principal employer, General Motors, began a series of layoffs that, according to Moore, eventually cost the city some 35,000 jobs. This created a ripple effect afflicting, it would seem, almost every other business, almost every citizen...