41.   Because consumer spending has helped fuel the economic boom, and much of that spending has been through borrowing, a drastic slowdown could be worrisome.

42.   Beyond that, there is concern about what will happen when the current economic boom ends.

43.   Benson could use an economic boom.

44.   Best may also be tapping into the guilt felt by extremely wealthy parents about the time they spent working during the recent economic boom.

45.   Boxer also offered a direct challenge to the GOP assertion that the Clinton administration has missed an opportunity during the economic boom.

46.   ----- Flush with foreign cash and hot entertainment commodities, Ireland is experiencing an economic boom and with it, an explosion of cultural self-confidence.

47.   A current economic boom, fueled by foreign investment and exports of raw materials, will either expand or it will not.

48.   After a speech here Saturday, Clinton said she believed that the Lazio plan would waste the surplus and stifle the economic boom.

49.   After a decade of low oil prices and economic boom, U.S. consumers have been lulled into inattention to oil issues.

50.   After a global economic boom, growth is slowing.