101.   Despite those declines, a number of analysts are optimistic that financial shares will soon resume their place as stellar performers.

102.   Despite her international prominence, she is acutely aware of her place as a woman in a Muslim society.

103.   Dodgers interim general manager Dave Wallace is expected to bring up the issue once the season ends and Dan Evans is in place as general manager.

104.   During the evolutionary synthesis, neo-Darwinism took its place as the dominant theory of evolution.

105.   During two weeks in Russia, I came to experience the place as, in every sense, another country.

106.   Ducasse cites three-month waiting lists at his principal places as evidence that it is not.

107.   Eason Jordan, the chief news executive of CNN, believes that his people should be as many places as possible.

108.   Einstein Bros., meanwhile, will continue to expand its franchised network in such places as Florida, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and Utah.

109.   Entry-level cars in high-tech garb can seem as out of place as a computerized rowboat in a yacht race.

110.   Even in the golden years of moviemaking more than a half-century ago, Hollywood was never so much a place as a concept.