1.   An unprecedented boom in tourism brought prosperity to the town.

2.   But the population boom brought its share of problems.

3.   Of course, the boom has brought accompanying problems.

4.   Oil boom brings new business to hotel-industry, manufacturing, petrochemical and power sectors.

5.   Penney bought a house two lots away from the Cheney home, when the oil boom brought him from Oklahoma.

6.   The boom has brought millions of small investors into the stock market, putting more money into the hands of more people.

7.   The American hard-court boom brought its own level of bratty brilliance, and years later, a fundamental confusion about how to best market a languishing sport.

8.   The building boom brought higher ticket prices, but not better movies.

9.   The housing boom brought traditional suburban-style subdivisions to rural areas and thousands of bungalows to artificial canals and lagoons that builders dug in the marshland.

10.   The merger boom brought First Boston to prominence.