1.   A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.

2.   And the stock market boom really helped.

3.   At Disney for eight years, Kniep said the boom in animation helped the rapport between the prized artists who create characters and those like herself who refine them.

4.   But many leaders of arts centers argue that the Broadway boom indirectly helps other arts groups.

5.   In Tashkent, the construction boom has helped buoy economic appearances.

6.   The boom has helped the entire nation.

7.   The boom has helped create a class of biotechnology companies big enough to compete with big pharmaceutical companies to license technology or buy smaller companies.

8.   The boom is helping Morocco leapfrog generations of development.

9.   The economic boom has helped open the way to aggressive re-development of contaminated patches of inner cities.