1.   Industry heavyweights routinely spend millions of dollars on extravagant booths and lavish parties.

2.   Before that he built a small trash-hauling company into Waste Management, now industry heavyweight WMX Technologies Inc.

3.   A group of industry heavyweights joined to create Bluetooth, hoping to stave off competing standards.

4.   Even backgrounder seminars for industry heavyweights have turned into cheerleading events for high-definition, plasma and other digital television formats.

5.   He noted that the film is first from Dark Castle, formed by industry heavyweights Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis to produce low-cost horror fare.

6.   Many entertainment executives have no problem sending their kids to school with the children of other industry heavyweights.

7.   Some smaller brokerages, which pull in more of their revenue from trading commissions, have risen even more than the industry heavyweights.

8.   The auction drew industry heavyweights who anticipate PCS systems to be the wave of the communications future.

9.   The linking of four semiconductor industry heavyweights comes as demand for memory-intensive personal computer programs, high-definition digital video, multimedia and telecommunications systems soars.