21.   Banks performed well, as a relatively steeper drop in short-term bond yields widened the gap between what banks pay savers and they charge borrowers.

22.   Banks performed well, as a relatively steeper drop in short-term bond yields widened the gap between what banks pay savers and what they charge borrowers.

23.   Barrett and other liberal critics assailed the tax break as a form of corporate welfare that would widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

24.   Baseball, set apart from the other sports in so many ways, continues to widen the gap.

25.   A Fed move would widen the gap between interest rates in the U.S. and those in Europe and Japan, where rates are expected to remain low.

26.   A Fed move would widen the gap between interest rates in the U.S. and those in Germany and Japan, where rates are expected to remain low.

27.   A new poll shows President Clinton widening the gap among women voters.

28.   A sagging economy that has affected the sponsorship deals of several racing teams has also widened the gap between the haves and have-nots.

29.   Administration officials believe it is possible to widen the gap between public opinion and the legislative priorities of conservative Republicans led by House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia.

30.   All this, of course, fights the gloomier view that technology and globalization will only widen the gap between the rich and the rest of the country.