1.   California comes to grips with implications of a long prison building boom.

2.   For Pat Singer, longtime president of the Brighton Neighborhood Association, the Manhattan Beach building boom is bittersweet.

3.   If the current economic boom was built in part on individual investors, members of clubs such as Kitchen Kabinet represent a significant subset.

4.   In part, they say, that is because lenders, who finance hotel building booms, have become more cautious.

5.   Mayreder, like rival Austrian builder Maculan Holding AG, encountered financial troubles after moving into former East Germany, where a post-reunification building boom is now fading.

6.   Still, it is clear that the Florida building boom continued even as construction in other states faltered.

7.   The economic boom was built on the very same business revolution that demolished job security forever.

8.   The momentum fueled by young golfers is one of the reasons behind a golf-course building boom.

9.   The money prompted an unprecedented school building boom, bought educational innovations that attracted national attention and boosted teacher salaries.

10.   Yet these two impulses are clashing across the nation as the United States finds itself in the midst of an unparalleled prison building boom.