1.   The energy crisis is fuelling a boom in alternative energy.

2.   The economic boom was fueled by easy credit.

3.   Growth in air travel is fuelling the boom.

4.   Big cuts could fuel a boom in spending, spur inflation and force higher interest rates, he said.

5.   Boston, in particular, a Mecca of physical scientists and doctors, had the necessary synergy to fuel a boom in the new technology.

6.   A skating boom had been fueled by the sordid Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding saga and by the disappearance of National Football League games from CBS.

7.   But the local networks also fueled a boom in inter-office e-mail and, for those who had outgrown Solitaire, multi-player games.

8.   Despite a slowdown in the general economy, British consumers have continued to spend, helping to fuel a boom in new homes.

9.   Even state and local governments, flush with cash these days, helped fuel the boom by plowing their surpluses into road repairs and highway construction.