21.   After his death, a wave of killings swept through Juarez and authorities attributed them initially to a succession struggle among his lieutenants.

22.   But three years after the new-media wave first swept the industry, it has left some woozy players in its wake.

23.   He said a wave of fear swept over his customers on Thursday as soon as they heard about the killings.

24.   He has found, for example, coastal areas where waves swept over and destroyed docks and buildings that had not been affected by waves for several decades.

25.   Ocean waves swept away half of the parking lot at popular Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park.

26.   Now, as a wave of bankruptcies sweeps across Japan and as the government cracks down with tougher regulation, the banks are slamming on the brakes.

27.   Somewhere around that time, a teen-ager in Melbourne, Australia, found himself interviewed on TV about ABBA-mania as the wave was sweeping the continent.

28.   The sailors sometimes got sick as the boat rolled and heaved and waves swept over them.

29.   The wave swept over you quickly and you knew this was an instant, a day that would haunt you always.

30.   Thirty-six hours before the polls opened on Election Day, a wave of gloom swept through the Republican mayoral campaign of Michael Bloomberg.