41.   They say Zell overpaid for some of the office properties and that his empire will be hard-pressed to show better-than-average growth.

42.   Thinking about all the wasted words on Drew Bledsoe and this mosh pit thing, one realizes that the American empire is just about over.

43.   To be sure, the K-III empire has not exactly been a runaway success.

44.   Today the evil empire is many empires that defy glib moralizing, and America is a more equivocating superpower.

45.   Berlusconi, a former premier whose television empire is under fire of leftwing reformers, said he was saddened with his team defeat, which he considered undeserved.

46.   His personal appearances are stiff and his TV spots dull appeals to nostalgia for the good old days when the Soviet empire was far larger.

47.   If that happens, the American empire will be hollow and short-lived.

48.   Its empire is long gone, shrunk to a small nation of largely skiing and hiking fanatics.

49.   Japan and Russia, whose empires were expanding north and east respectively, clashed in battles for the island twice since Chekov found it such a brutal place.

50.   Previously, the danger flowing from the far-flung possessions of media magnates was that their empires were never subject to the normal process of decolonization.