1.   Nevertheless, the booming market has meant plenty of scope for competition, which is healthy for the customer.

2.   American developers in particular have said they see a future booming market of U.S. Army and other veterans returning on holidays -- often emotional ones -- to Vietnam.

3.   Analysts believe both start-ups will benefit by coming into being amidst a booming market for theater construction.

4.   And he entered Swiss Re in a reinsurance derivatives joint venture with Credit Suisse, moving into a booming market.

5.   And some institutional investors, like pension funds, have been slow to rebalance their portfolios by taking money away from the booming domestic market and moving it overseas.

6.   And Vietnam is strategically located between booming markets such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

7.   As a businessman who found American banks too skittish, Pappas believes Anglo Irish Bankcorp is poised to take advantage of the booming market here and elsewhere.

8.   As a result, many European governments are trying to limit their use, dampening what executives had hoped would one day be a booming market.

9.   As Lucent lost its lead in that booming market and its share price began to sink, hundreds of engineers jumped ship to rivals whose stocks were soaring.

10.   Barely five months ago, in October, prospects for a booming residential market seemed, at best, imperiled.