Dot-com ventures -- at least for a while -- blossomed everywhere.
While Bale is blossoming under Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas, it appears a rather less settled ship at the Portuguese's former employers, Chelsea.
While Guidry was blossoming into one of baseball's premier left-handers, Berra was a coach on Manager Billy Martin's staff (and later became Guidry's manager).
Around then, his culinary ambitions started blossoming, while his ability to use the conventional kitchen in our suburban Westchester home became more restricted.
The latest Roberts novel, "The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance," published last year by MIT Press, examines corporate responsibility and consumer safety while following the blossoming love story between a high school economics teacher and an English instructor.
Even though independent artisans like Mr. Xu are hard to find, watchmaking in China has a long tradition, while today's blossoming demand for luxury watches, mostly made in Europe, recalls imperial times when Swiss-made clocks and clockwork curios ticked in many dignitaries' homes.
Vicki Peterson: It took a while before it blossomed into a scene, but we met the guys in the Unclaimed very early on, before we'd even played with Susanna.
So for a while the product blossomed.
Just this week, Parker said Myspace's fall from grace was down to it being a "junkheap of bad design", while Facebook blossomed with lots of new features.
BB2, 2001 Schoolteacher Penny was criticised after letting her towel drop in front of the cameras, while romance blossomed between dippy hairdresser Helen Adams and laddish Paul Clarke.
