21.   With the clock under two minutes, Drew hit a tough fadeaway on the baseline to cut the margin to nine.

22.   A slow turn into breaststroke allowed Yoshimi to cut the margin but Xiong powered away again, sealing the gold with an excellent freestyle effort.

23.   Bill Bradley is trailing Vice President Al Gore but has cut the margin, in the Democratic presidential race, says a poll released Saturday.

24.   Both players made an early bogey before Clarke birdied the seventh, cutting the margin to one shot.

25.   Burke missed the conversion and Scotland winger Derrick Lee cut the margin to two points with a penalty goal in the ninth minute.

26.   But Peterson converted a three-point play, and Chicago could never cut the margin to less than four again.

27.   But in the past three months, Robb has cut the margin with gains among female voters.

28.   But the Mason-Dixon poll found Robb had cut the margin with gains among female voters.

29.   Florida led by two goals three times in the period, but the Devils cut the margin each time getting the benefit of some bad plays and great bounces.

30.   He won, but his double-bogey on the last hole cut his margin of victory over Hale Irwin to one stroke.