During the sustained economic boom that began in the early 90's, the state became vastly more hospitable to restaurants.

About 65 percent more Americans had an episode of homelessness annually in 1996, during a sustained economic boom, than in 1987, the institute found.

Europe underwent a sustained boom from the mid-fifties through to the early sixties.

But that dash at the start would not presage a sustained boom.

One is a sustained economic boom to raise living standards and thus give the Government a new legitimacy and the people a sense of common purpose.

The sustained economic boom has probably tempered expectations of the second Advent, he said, but they were still heightened, according to the poll.

But a fast start - which Fed officials now describe as a reasonable, albeit an unlikely, possibility - would not presage a sustained boom.

During the next five years there was a sustained boom in the textile industry owing to the worldwide shortage of cotton goods.

In Argentina, this period was three months, with another three months of stagnation before the economy began a sustained boom.

The discovery of diamonds and their mining from the late 1960s saw the beginning of a sustained economic boom in Botswana.