1.   And the real estate and business boom has meant a surge of new construction jobs.

2.   A bigger boom does not mean a better movie.

3.   For actors, the audio boom means work, and work of a seductive nature.

4.   For other teen-agers, the boom still means working, but in jobs that put them on career tracks more quickly.

5.   Greenspan said the boom meant businesses were finding lots of good investment opportunities.

6.   The boom has meant big business for consultants like Arthur Andersen and for software vendors like Peoplesoft and Oracle from the United States and Baan of the Netherlands.

7.   The consolidation boom usually means large institutions buying small or medium-sized banks, Parry said.

8.   The population boom means many couples are in prime child bearing ages, so replacement fertility would result in more births than deaths.