1.   Bill and Hillary Clinton want to extend their grip on the Executive Branch for four more years.

2.   The French gradually extended their grip beyond their own former territories to French-speaking Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi.

3.   Insurgents continued to consolidate and extend their grip on southern Albania.

4.   Insurgents were consolidating and extending their grip on southern Albania.

5.   Meanwhile, insurgents were consolidating and extending their grip on southern Albania.

6.   Milosevic always has controlled Serbian TV, the main source of news for most Yugoslavs, and he has extended his grip to most newspapers.