Word: boomtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOOMTOWN BEANTOWN...
...what Buckhead most vividly dramatizes, perhaps, is the split down the center of the city between Atlanta and Georgia. For if to the rest of the state the capital seems an anomalous Northern transplant (more than half its residents, after all, come from somewhere else), to the boomtown developers in the glass-walled towers the rest of the state seems dangerously slow and Southern...
...what exactly was America buying into with such enthusiasm last week? The Internet, of course, that boomtown of the wired world. "The Internet has gone to Main Street," said analyst Kathleen Smith of Renaissance Capital, a Connecticut firm that evaluates initial public offerings for institutional investors. Netscape was "the hottest deal we've ever seen. Friends we never thought we had were calling us, asking us how they could buy shares...
...Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California to pan for gold. "Nothing I love...
...private enterprise formed to look into investments in mining, lumber, agriculture, transportation and power generation, with an eye to plowing the profits back into humanitarian efforts. A nascent diamond-mining operation in Zaire is a project of the ADC. Located on a river southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart of Zaire's diamond country, the project uses state-of-the-art dredges and diving equipment. Robertson is also exploring gold interests on the upper Zaire, or Congo, River, and assessing the hardwood logging potential of four great swaths of rain forest...