31.   With the opening in the last decade of several new hotels and the San Diego Convention Center downtown, much of the convention business moved there.

32.   Hotels are jammed with tourists and convention business.

33.   Lyons resigned in disgrace in March and is serving state and federal prison sentences for financial misdealings growing out of convention business.

34.   New Orleans tourism officials had complained that a shortage of nonstop service was hurting convention business.

35.   Young said he expects increased convention business, airport traffic and corporate relocations as an outgrowth of the generally positive experiences of Olympic visitors.

36.   He recalled that, when threatened with the loss of convention business, Colorado repealed a controversial anti-gay law.