51.   The collapse of the planned merger between Gemina SpA and Ferruzzi Finanziaria SpA leaves its chief architect, secretive Milan investment bank Mediobanca SpA, licking its wounds.

52.   The furniture community made its semiannual pilgrimage to the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, N.C., this week to lick its wounds and search its soul.

53.   The Jazz were going home, not to lick their wounds and count their regrets, but to play ball and keep competing for the NBA championship.

54.   The Penguins have a few days to rest and prepare for the Eastern Conference finals while the Rangers are home licking their wounds, wondering what happened.

55.   The Pulpit camp was licking its wounds but is getting ready to fight another day.

56.   The Republicans, meanwhile, lick their wounds as polls show they lost ground politically from their efforts to oust the president.

57.   The Serbs, stalled on the battlefield, would gain the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions and some time to lick their wounds.

58.   The Spurs, meanwhile, are licking their wounds and lamenting lost opportunities.

59.   The South Florida public, still licking its wounds from three years ago, is very much attuned to the threat of a hurricane.

60.   The U.S. defeated Canada in the last World Cup, and Canada is still licking its wounds.