They both obviously convey the notion of boomtown and also represent a boom's inevitable and distressing partner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzword: Boomburg/Boomburb] Reference

Meanwhile, Little Missouri and the "boomtown" were leading an existence which seemed to ricochet back and forth between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference

SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Las Vegas is a boomtown, literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007] Reference

SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Las Vegas is a boomtown -- literally.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007] Reference

For a farmer who could become oil barren in a brand new boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008] Reference

"East Texas was a boomtown region, I'd agree with that," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Times Editor's Flashy Book Proposal Lands $850,000 Deal] Reference

Life in a boomtown where there's wealth beyond your wildest dreams.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 7, 2008] Reference

And that's what's giving birth to a boomtown called Fort McMurray, Alberta.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2008] Reference

Even the industry's newest boomtown, Macau in China, is starting to falter.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Las Vegas Slumps, Wynn Doubles Down] Reference

To transform the beleaguered nabe into a commercial and residential boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate] Reference

In 1910, Los Angeles was a young boomtown aching for water and respectability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamite and Deadlines] Reference

They lived in the coastal boomtown of Shenzhen, where they ran a small company.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Anyone Still in a Building Is Dead'] Reference

Abu Dhabi is hardly the first boomtown to be swept up in luxury license plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Read My License Plate:] Reference

The new Internet frontier is different from the virtual boomtown of the late 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postscript] Reference

Now, as the economy slows, regulators are trying to rein in the offshore boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dubai Prosecutors Indict Several for Bribery, Fraud] Reference

One explanation for this, says Wray, could be the fast-growth, boomtown nature of Vegas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Las Vegas: The Suicide Capital Of America] Reference

The Yanks may one day be remembered as this era's boomtown team, but the Rangers touched it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Listen, Blue-Nosed Knicks Snobs: Lemme Explain the Jersey Devils] Reference

Every fifth house in this onetime real-estate boomtown is in some state of the foreclosure process.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Home Sales Revive,] Reference

GUTIERREZ: Better late than never for a farmer who could become a oil baron in a brand new boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference

The first stop is this boomtown that expanded because of the crazy gas and oil prices north of the border.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference

Destination: a boomtown in western Sweden called Boras, where bricklayers like himself are in short supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voting With Their Feet] Reference

But the few who hung on eventually prospered -- and turned this drowsy village -- into an agricultural boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [BRAZIL'S GROWING POWER] Reference

The Sichuan native had worked in Shenzhen, the Chinese boomtown near Hong Kong making chips for Nokia cell phones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sichuan Learns To Help Itself] Reference

GUTIERREZ (voice-over): Better late than never for a farmer who could become an oil baron in a brand new boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2008] Reference

Since its opening last year as the first of the new old-time ballparks, Camden Yards has been a veritable boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Was Robbed!] Reference

As a result of that, this area that I'm in -- Ft. McMurray, Alberta -- is as close to a boomtown as one will ever see.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008] Reference

Today, Tirana is a dusty boomtown full of new construction and about as much law as one might expect in Europe's Wild East.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: Albania: Europe's Wild East] Reference

Li opened Packer's Cafe in January because he felt "suffocated" working as an Internet developer in the boomtown of Shenzhen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climb Every Mountain] Reference

IN 1991, THESE BANDS made Seattle a boomtown and "grunge" a growth industry, selling 17 million albums between them worldwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Fall's A Ball] Reference

RITA HABEBE, TOUR OPERATOR MAGIC LIBYA: And (UNINTELLIGIBLE) think (ph) about Libya and Tripoli itself has seen a bit of a boomtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2002] Reference

His attitude is in sharp contrast to the giddy, boomtown-growth promises that AOL executives became schooled in making to investors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Levin Grabs the Moment] Reference

But really, we went there to say that the thirst for energy is so great, that it's caused -- it's grown this boomtown in northern Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008] Reference