1.   As the salaries in hockey approach the astronomical levels of other sports, they bring with them the same concerns, problems, and perspectives.

2.   During the ensuing decade, known as the bubble years, stock and real estate prices reached astronomical levels.

3.   Falling stocks in September are an alarming trend for consumers in a year in which gasoline prices have already surged to astronomical levels.

4.   That same sentiment drove the secondary market for tickets back to astronomical levels Sunday afternoon.

5.   The PGA Tour and commissioner Tim Finchem should be riding high, given the lucrative television contracts and plans to increase purses to astronomical levels.

6.   Archaic land control and labor rules have pushed up office space costs to astronomical levels and has deterred many foreign firms from opening branches in the western metropolis.

7.   For, when the corporate traveller was ubiquitous, the industry milked him dry, raising hotel room tariffs to astronomical levels.

8.   Instead of being flushed out of the system, as ordinarily happens, dopamine spikes to astronomical levels.