21.   The four legislators argued that the proposed rules had loopholes that would still permit state parties to spend soft money on campaign advertisements that attack or promote federal candidates.

22.   The measure does have loopholes, however.

23.   The state has one loophole, but it is a narrow one.

24.   The vacuous plot has more potholes than Washington has loopholes.

25.   There is a federal ban on assault weapons, but it has so many loopholes that some states have passed bans of their own to close them.

26.   This agreement had a loophole to address concerns over sovereignty.

27.   This rule has enough loopholes to make it potentially more worthless than the one we have now.

28.   When Democrats complained that the GOP-backed approach had loopholes, many Republicans voted earlier Thursday to tighten some requirements.

29.   Yet it has big loopholes, too.

30.   A budget provision banning the Internet sale of Social Security numbers has so many loopholes that President Clinton has promised to veto it, critics of the proposal say.