51.   Pressure on Schroeder to seize the initiative has grown since the conservative opposition last week nominated a challenger, Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, with a strong economic record.

52.   Pressure on Yatom to resign has been growing since an inquiry into the botched assassination of a Hamas leader in Jordan pinned most on the blame on him.

53.   A fiery speaker whose charisma has grown since surviving near-fatal infection last year that forced amputation of a leg.

54.   At ADT Security, president Michael Snyder said the home protection side of his business, based in Boca Raton, Florida, has grown since the attacks.

55.   Both companies are privately held and declined to disclose a purchase price for the business monthly, which has grown quickly since being founded five years ago.

56.   But he anticipated further weakness, noting that new orders had not grown since June and new export orders were down in November for a second consecutive month.

57.   But the campaign to oust Grachev has been growing since October, when an investigative reporter was killed by a briefcase bomb.

58.   But skepticism over the summit agreement has grown since North Korea cut off virtually all contact with Seoul over tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

59.   Demands for his resignation have been growing since his former campaign manager, Fernando Botero, made the same accusation exactly one week ago.

60.   Demands for independence have grown since the resignation in May of authoritarian Suharto.