1, The capital, Yangon, certainly looks like a boomtown.

2, The Boomtown Rats have exploded out of the country, but there is little lingering after-effect.

3, Hilton and Boomtown previously made an unsuccessful bid for a license in Lawrenceburg, Ind.

4, Skagway was a boomtown at the Gold Rush days.

5, Opportunities for employment abound in this boomtown.

6, But GE's pride is just another boomtown office building compared with its new neighbor across the street, a stadium-sized saucer that looks like it escaped from Beijing's Olympic Park.

7, "I wouldn't say we're back in boomtown quite yet, " Sebille-White says.

8, They lived near a silver boomtown where hard work and sudden luck were transforming the occasional poor man into a wealthy one.

9, IN THE southern boomtown of Shenzhen, normally docile legislators have been complaining with unusual vigour.

10, It's true that students in boomtown Shanghai aren't representative of those in all of China, but when it comes to metrics like test scores, symbolism matters.

11, A boomtown, Shanghai had no scenic spots in which spring might rest its feet.

12, Not long after that, Boomtown and other Reno casinos faced the loss of out-of-town customers from California to Indian casinos closer to their homes.

13, The zone hopes to succeed much as the southern boomtown of Shenzhen did in the 1980s, or Shanghai's Pudong did in the 1990s.

14, The Los Angeles that greeted these pioneers who disembarked after their four-day train ride from the east was part boomtown, part frontier.

15, " Li says in the simple dorm room she shares with two other women in Dongguan, a southern coastal boomtown near Hong Kong.

16, A half a century later, western Pennsylvania became a boomtown, built on its substantial petroleum reserves.

17, Mr. Henson said he found out only three years ago that Mr. Jandali had fathered Mr. Jobs even though Mr. Henson was mentored by Mr. Jandali at Boomtown and was the best man at his third wedding.

18, But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.

19, China's gaudy growth doesn't mean much to Xie Jun, who runs a factory in the southern Chinese boomtown of Dongguan. He's enduring a tough year.

20, Arlene Hixson and her fiance, Tony Goligowski,[http:///boomtown.html] booked the date at Boomtown almost two years in advance.

21, But when I asked why they went to the coastal boomtown of Shenzhen for work, they invariably said, "For fun.

22, Compared with the rest of America, Silicon Valley feels like a boomtown.