1.   Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom.

2.   Accompanying his Russian commander and garbed in a Russian space suit, Linenger will first make his way to the tip of a long boom.

3.   But the United States is slowing down from a long boom, while Japan has been anemic for years.

4.   Despite the long boom, Americans are pursuing material happiness during this holiday season with unwavering zeal.

5.   For now, even nine months into the first recession in a decade, the nation looks quite different than it did before the long boom.

6.   Further, the long U.S. boom has left most American banks with strong enough balance sheets to absorb a loss or two in Asia.

7.   He ignores the public realm in which were made the wrenching political and economic decisions leading to the long boom in asset prices.

8.   It is a mistake that Greenspan seems determined to avoid repeating as a long boom again gives way to a period of economic risk.

9.   It had all come together to create a long boom of economic expansion with new jobs and new opportunities.

10.   Investors and their unflagging optimism have been credited with much of the long boom in stocks.