In 1985, when a huge backlog of unsold smaller condos from the 1978-80 building binge glutted the market, the average sales price was less than $70,000.

The city created a new School Construction Authority to handle the building binge, but that agency has persistently been a troubled one.

Marriott's mountain of debt is a hangover from a building binge in the 80's that approached 100 hotels a year at its peak.

Where to Stay Philadelphia is booked for convention week, but the building binge has ensured a tourists' market for most other weeks of the summer and fall.

The Crazy Water Park is one of a number of seaside tourist resorts constructed in a $20 million building binge.

"We are on a building binge, and I think one can question the need for all these big mega-projects," said Gurmit Singh, a leading environmentalist.

Led by H. Wayne Huizenga, the billionaire who has already made two fortunes, Republic is in the middle of an extraordinary buying and building binge.

If Walt Disney's moviemakers were telling the story of their company's extraordinary building binge, it would probably sound something like the paragraph above.

The building binge of the late 1990's replaced smaller theaters with megaplexes, leading to the current glut.

The building binge of the 1980's left vast vacancies.