51.   Peterman built a thriving business until he was charged last year with selling obscene material and faced the prospect of bankruptcy and jail.

52.   Personal watercraft rentals are a thriving business in Florida.

53.   Psychic Madam Bell had a thriving business, partly based on her advice on how to avoid bad luck.

54.   Securing long-distance approval can also pave the way into other lines of business for Bell Atlantic, such as the thriving Internet access business, Seidenberg said.

55.   Scrambling to catch up with their rivals at Stanford University, professors and students University of California at Berkeley are turning campus research into thriving businesses.

56.   She now has a thriving business in a state where lay midwives are legal.

57.   Shops did a thriving business in stuffed toy wolves, books on wolves and T-shirts stamped with wolves.

58.   So successful is the largely illegal trade in Iraqi antiquities that a thriving business in Mesopotamian fakes is also growing.

59.   SunAmerica is a leader in the thriving business of variable annuities, an investment that combines features of mutual funds and insurance.

60.   The American withdrawal put an end to the thriving businesses of Cam Ranh.