1.   The biggest boost has come with the opening up of the Mediterranean.

2.   An end to the unraveling of the job market would give the biggest boost to confidence, specialists in consumer behavior say.

3.   Anger over corporate cutbacks and meager pay hikes is giving unions their biggest boost in decades.

4.   Bank issues got the biggest boost as these companies would see profit margins pinched by an increase in borrowing costs.

5.   Bank of Boston got its biggest boost from its Latin American investments and lending, as well as from banking fees in the U.S.

6.   A ranking of metropolitan areas that have seen the biggest boost in immigration also showed movement toward the heartland.

7.   But anger over corporate cutbacks and meager pay hikes is giving the movement its biggest boost in decades.

8.   But Dole may get the biggest boost of any candidate from the nonscientific, nonbinding straw poll.

9.   But perhaps the biggest boost came from the calendar.

10.   But the biggest boost to his business has come from the government.