1.   The boom has created opportunities, and money has trickled down from the coastal boom towns to poorer inland regions.

2.   As more Chinese -- particularly in undeveloped inland regions -- gain access to electricity and running water, retail should get jump-started again, merchants say.

3.   Happily for skiers, most of it was dumped in inland mountainous regions of New York and New England.

4.   It flooded many inland regions, damaging houses there, too, and uprooting trees all over.

5.   Native to inland regions, they are among the easiest South Africans to please, thriving with indirect light and room temperatures more in keeping with average thermostat settings.

6.   The inland region will eventually be based in Chino, though no date for the relocation has been set, officials said.

7.   They look at the Creole oligarchy of the inland regions, the dominance of Havana and the details of daily life, customs and pastimes that surround both.

8.   While Hurricane Erin did bring rain to coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico, inland regions are still suffering from a drought, meteorologists said.

9.   By autumn, catching a train in many inland regions may require a calendar as well as a watch.

10.   He said the resources freed by ending subsidies to inefficient Chinese farmers can be used to build a social safety net and promote development of backward inland regions.