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  • adjective economics Before a boom

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pre- +‎ boom

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  • For other borrowers, the number of covenants is lower: a recent agreement for Tenet Healthcare contained just two tests; preboom deals could contain six covenants.

    The Return of Credit Market Craziness? Richard Barley 2010

  • It now stands at 75, compared with a preboom level of about 3, and implies a VIX in the 60s, according to CDR.

    Volatility in the Markets Is Down but Not Out 2009

  • If investor demand went back to preboom levels, she figures prices nationally would decrease more than 7 percent.

    PSST! WANNA HOT DEAL? 2007

  • The mournful Ireland of the preboom '80s is forgotten.

    Sunset on the Liffey? 2007

  • I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.”

    I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006

  • We landed in a tiny parking lot on the fringes of the preboom downtown, be-hind Buffalo Bull's.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • But one factor operating in institutions 'favor is that the preboom years of relative poverty meant that, as Mr. Taylor puts it, "universities here have a long history of doing a lot with very little."

    CHE > Latest news 2010

  • These sentiments are born out of a preboom frugality that relied on hand-me-downs and an ability to fashion new things out of old.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • These sentiments are born out of a preboom frugality that relied on hand-me-downs and an ability to fashion new things out of old.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

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