41. In a building boom unlike any seen before, property developments and infrastructure projects are bursting across the urban landscape and countryside. 42. In Texas, though, crime rates have declined faster than the national average ever since the building boom began. 43. In the building boom that followed World War II, the villages were swallowed up by the advancing metropolis. 44. In the southwestern Hanoi suburb of Tu Liem, there is a building boom. 45. Initial slumps were followed by building booms. 46. It began with the building boom following World War II. 47. It also would add another piece to a building boom in the Times Square area driven largely by media and financial companies. 48. It is dirty, exhausting work, driven by the building boom in Dhaka. 49. Japan was in a building boom, and overworked construction workers were forcing down bitter vials of yellow liquid vitamins for extra energy. 50. Japanese banks, according to some estimates, provided nearly one-third of the loans that funded the business and building boom of its neighbors. |