21.   After several years of record profits, U.S. banks experienced continued growth in lending and other businesses, while keeping costs under control.

22.   Brown warned that the current April-June period is traditionally when Microsoft experiences the slowest growth.

23.   By contrast, he said, Netware, its network operating system, and Groupwise have experienced strong growth.

24.   China and India alone will experience greater growth in emissions than all the OECD countries combined.

25.   Christian Freedom International in Front Royal, Va., has experienced similar growth.

26.   Construction and the retail-wholesale industry -- the remaining two broad categories in the report -- also experienced job growth.

27.   Despite the poor performance of socialism, the Soviet Union had experienced economic growth.

28.   During their early studies, a company spokeswoman said, doctors and their patients reported that men who were bald experienced hair growth while taking the drug.

29.   Eckbert said Holy Trinity experienced such growth that they began reopening closed churches and placing new members in them.

30.   Environmental degradation, stagnant economies, hunger, malnutrition and child deaths plague poorer countries experiencing runaway growth, the report said.