1.   Meanwhile, the fur trade is still flourishing.

2.   Although international laws prohibit private ownership of wild animals, illegal trade in brown bears flourishes in Asia and Eastern Europe.

3.   Drive-by shootings became commonplace in many poor neighborhoods where the cheap-drug trade flourished.

4.   Eichengreen still believes that world trade will flourish in the long run.

5.   He said if the US strikes Taliban targets, and the Taliban loses control over much of the country, the drug trade will flourish.

6.   In areas of northern Afghanistan controlled by anti-Taliban forces, however, the trade still flourishes.

7.   In the meantime, of course, the nonconfrontational attitude allows trade to flourish.

8.   It is easier for the black-market trade to flourish because even legal transactions are highly secret.

9.   Prisons were built, cells were crammed to bulging, and the drug trade flourished as never before.

10.   The tourist trade also flourished, with sightseeing trips to this scenic spot or that, and a mass production of souvenirs.