41.   As the peso lost ground and U.S. rates rose, domestic interest rates also rose.

42.   At first glance, the genteel pension-fund giant with the monstrously ungainly name seems to have lost ground to upstart rivals.

43.   At that point, Favorite Trick seemed to be losing ground.

44.   At the moment, the Republicans are losing some ground in the battle of public opinion.

45.   At the time, Xerox was expanding into financial services to diversify its earnings sources at a time when its copier business was losing ground to Japanese companies.

46.   Automobile sales data also show France losing ground -- its importance as a trade partner to Germany is actually shrinking.

47.   Banking, computer and drug shares gained, while cyclical capital goods lost ground.

48.   Beamer might not be so humble in three weeks, because the Hokies could keep losing ground based on their own strength of schedule.

49.   Before striking its marketing agreement last year with StorageTek, IBM had lost ground in the market for mainframe storage subsystems.

50.   Before losing ground over the past three sessions Acindar, which supplies steel to the booming construction industry, had tripled in the space of six months.