21.   First Interstate also was assured a large number of senior management positions, including oversight of the much of its vast network of branches across the western U.S.

22.   Fighters from Hezbollah rely on vast networks of sympathizers and families in villages throughout southern Lebanon for shelter and food.

23.   Gov. George W. Bush of Texas tapped into his vast network of friends and supporters.

24.   He has a vast network of contacts that begins in the Mexican underworld and extends into the higher reaches of official life.

25.   He arrived in town with a vast network, having done direct mail work and other consulting for many congressional campaigns.

26.   He loved the close proximity to his family and his vast network of friends.

27.   He plans to cut the vast network of subsidies to families and state businesses and to bring on competition in areas like bus routes and oil refineries.

28.   His vast network of professional friends had led him to these surgeons.

29.   In the United States and Britain, Benetton has gone from a vast network of small franchises to fewer, larger stores, many owned by the company itself.

30.   Individual words and concepts are stored in vast interactive networks, called nodes, throughout the brain, Levelt said.