Some groups have done better than others in the boom times, however.
So 12% growth when the boom times were on means nothing!
Now, of course, the fear is that the boom times are over.
Indeed, some say the electronics industry may never return to its boom times of a few years ago.
The bill for the boom times had arrived at the worst possible time.
In economic boom times, with unemployment at 4 percent, these are potential union members.
Even in a best case scenario most Americans believe boom times are a long way off.
To be sure, boom times have come to almost everybody in the satellite business since the war began.
The Victorian period was a boom time for the church building.
The 80s were the boom time, this is the correction period.