21.   Check-cashing is a thriving business.

22.   Claris has built a thriving business around a stable of top-flight software programs.

23.   Clark is being turned into an international airport and is a thriving business complex where companies such as America Online have operations.

24.   Despite the grim outlook for most dot-coms, two major Web measurement firms report online shopping from familiar retailers is still a thriving business.

25.   Either way, a spouse who owns a valuable art collection or a thriving business may rightly worry about losing part of it in a divorce settlement.

26.   Estee Lauder Co. has built a thriving Prescriptives business on individualized toner shades, but other discover-your-self cosmetic kiosks have fizzled.

27.   Five years later, it is a thriving business.

28.   For instance, some distributors try to avoid taxes by claiming that they sell exclusively to Indians when they actually do a thriving business with non-Indians.

29.   Finding a natural aptitude, I soon ran a thriving detective business in the morally heedless climate of Southern California.

30.   Former East German ambassadors to China and Vietnam, for example, now run thriving businesses representing European companies in those countries.