21.   She had asked for a diet soda, but the sugary kind was all her doctor had.

22.   Tables bulge with everything from cat food to diet sodas from which people with a tornado victim identification card can shop every day but Sunday.

23.   The growth has come mainly at the expense of diet soda.

24.   The refrigerators teem with diet sodas and designer water.

25.   The suit, filed last April, sought to reimburse more than four million users of diet soda.

26.   They call to us from packages of diet soda and cigarettes.

27.   Those United States companies are selling the world not just diet sodas, chicken sandwiches and blue jeans, but also movie tickets, Internet access and word-processing software.

28.   We can tell you which households allow diet sodas, Barbie dolls and too much TV.

29.   Sipping a glass of diet soda, she admits to being a bit tuckered out.