21.   That means there is time to buy while the market is gathering steam but before it overheats.

22.   That was the positive news that the companies emphasized last week when they said their negotiations with Chinese officials were gathering steam.

23.   The news only came out after a leak on Wednesday, at a moment when a congressional investigation is gathering steam.

24.   The request came just when Whitewater was gathering steam, and Clinton may simply have been thrashing about for ways to defuse the story, not the investigation.

25.   The suggestion seems to be gathering steam.

26.   Voters must also decide whether to give a retroactive rubber stamp to emergency measures taken last year as the Kosovo refugee inflow was gathering steam.

27.   While trouble was brewing internally, law enforcement was gathering steam in its own investigation.

28.   Yet this tragedy may soon give way to a new, white-knuckle melodrama gathering steam in the wings.

29.   Now, with South Africa restored to the international community, the idea that the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean are a logical economic entity is gathering steam.

30.   Campaigns on both sides of the issue have been gathering steam in recent weeks, and there has been controversy at every step.