1.   Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years.

2.   The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.

3.   Boom years, bust years, government subsidies or none, it matters not -- the old alma mater will aways exhort alumni to give, give, give.

4.   But he hopes to keep his business afloat using the entrepreneurial tricks he has learned during the boom years.

5.   During the Internet boom years, businesses spent far more on technology products than they could digest, and it will still take years to work off that excess.

6.   During the boom years, businesses got carried away buying computer and telecommunications gear.

7.   During the boom years many companies enjoyed a pension holiday.

8.   During the boom years, most states stockpiled millions of dollars to pay for unemployment benefits during future downturns.

9.   During the oil boom years, the tacit understanding was that the government would pay for everything and the people would not ask questions.

10.   Even in the boom years, few people from Tabasco were able to land steady work with Pemex, local activists say.