1.   The tourist industry is booming, with more visitors this year than ever before.

2.   And until this year, the mutual fund industry had boomed.

3.   As the industry boomed, the rate of accidents grew.

4.   As the fund industry has boomed in size, fund companies have seen their profitability soar.

5.   At a time when industry is booming, a large class of workers is slipping into a netherworld of temporary work.

6.   At the same time, the personal computer industry has boomed, and technology leadership has simply followed the dollars.

7.   Big steel is investing big money in technology even as the industry is booming.

8.   But now the hotel industry is booming again in New York and there is every chance that this time the developers will prevail.

9.   By this time, the oil industry was booming across south Louisiana.

10.   California may be suddenly awash in electric power, and prices of oil and natural gas may have fallen, but the solar electric power industry is still booming.