61.   He said this would affect Syria as well as the Lebanese because the Syrians have expanding economic interests in the current construction boom in Beirut.

62.   However, it was the previous administration of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres that authorized the construction boom in Maale Adumim.

63.   In the short term, floods and other disasters can help generate slight construction booms, as homes, roads and factories are rebuilt.

64.   It was a tough year for theater owners burdened by debt from a construction boom to build cinema complexes with better sound, seating and other amenities.

65.   Low-income laborers hit by unemployment with the construction boom over have been drawn to town by the Olympics.

66.   Luzhkov enjoys broad popularity in the capital for keeping it relatively prosperous and spearheading a construction boom.

67.   Luzhkov is popular in Moscow, where residents credit him with a construction boom that has spruced up the city.

68.   Luzhkov enjoys broad popularity in the Russian capital, whose residents credit him with a construction boom in recent years.

69.   Luzhkov is widely popular in Moscow, where residents credit him with a construction boom, but his popularity in the provinces remains untried.

70.   Luzhkov remains widely popular in Moscow, where residents credit him with a construction boom that has spruced up the city.