11.   Accompanying this construction boom has been a dramatic rise in the number of prison guards.

12.   Boston, in the midst of a construction boom, resells used building materials.

13.   But high prices have already sparked a huge construction boom in the power industry, which will add three or four plants per week for the next few years.

14.   But now the company is transforming the region by embarking on a construction boom that would be the most extensive in Florida since Disney came to Orlando.

15.   By heavily investing in mortgage-backed securities, pension funds have helped to finance a construction boom.

16.   Cement companies have been a favorite recently among investors, who have bet that an ongoing construction boom and an expanding economy will mean rising profit.

17.   Competitors raced to imitate its mix of gambling and fantasy for adults, beginning a construction boom on the Las Vegas Strip.

18.   Country music itself has been experiencing a troubling downturn in sales, but the capital of country music has been amid a construction boom.

19.   Demand for steel has surged because of higher production of automobiles and to supply a national construction boom.