21.   Oil has quietly lost its hold on the American economy.

22.   Sixty feet above the roiling current, he lost hold and tumbled to the churning water below.

23.   The fact is that he still might, if the alternative is losing his hold on the reformers he just won from the Perot remnants.

24.   The government relaxed its censorship, and the church began to lose its hold.

25.   The powerful interests that lost their hold on the Mexican presidency last Sunday are sure to strike back.

26.   The strong high pressure promoting the hot conditions will slowly lose its hold over the Northeast and move out to sea.

27.   Traditional politics is losing its hold on American families.

28.   We may be losing our hold on the public, this beneficent hold that has allowed some doctors to work near-miracles over the last few centuries.

29.   Without them, argues Biskind, American movies would have lost their hold on the world.

30.   But the diplomat said Holbrooke agreed to the concession because he feared Milosevic was in danger of losing his hold on the Bosnian Serbs.