41.   That explanation gained some currency last week when several suspected rebels arrested in Tabasco state turned out to be minor PRI officials.

42.   That argument has been gaining currency on Capitol Hill, especially after Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, endorsed most-favored-nation status.

43.   Such thinking has hardly gained currency, but disquiet among bankers over the millenium computer bug is increasingly palpable.

44.   That proposition gained currency in Britain but met skepticism in Europe, where anthropologists were finding enough Neanderthal fossils to dispute the Piltdown claim.

45.   That view is gaining currency.

46.   That theory gained some currency this week when The Associated Press reported that Samaranch had begun to express his concerns about a revolt from the inside.

47.   The idea has even gained currency with some people in the United States.

48.   The idea gained some currency when Clinton did not quickly rule it out as a goal of the commission.

49.   The idea that boys need more help than girls do is slowly gaining currency nationally.

50.   The New England region, however, is a battleground over a new approach to environmental enforcement, one that is gaining currency nationally.