One was the booming popularity of diesel engines, which burn far less fuel than gasoline engines and are now in one-third of all new cars sold here.

Even as a steroid cloud hung over last season, baseball enjoyed a booming popularity.

The booming popularity of poker has spawned any number of cable television shows and made media figures of professionals like Chris Moneymaker and Daniel Negreanu.

In the early 1950's, the booming popularity of television led to a significant drop in theater admissions.

Overall, crime remains down 55 percent compared with the rate six years ago, a statistic that many credit with fueling New York's booming popularity with tourists.

Nascar officials know that a successful debut by Aikman and Staubach can only add to the sport's booming popularity.

The development has the potential to take golf's booming popularity to even greater heights on a global scale.

Yet the booming popularity of these bacchanal computer conferences and trade shows is not solely for profit's sake.

Part of this interest stems from the booming popularity of golf in Japan, a tiny nation without the land to build many golf courses.

Witness its booming popularity from Baja to the Pacific Northwest to the Great Lakes to the New England coast.