41.   But evidently, the lesson was not easily transferred to the explosive growth in electronic commerce and the sudden glut of Internet-related business method patents.

42.   But as many other boom towns have also found, explosive growth has not been an unalloyed blessing here and in the surrounding Sevier County.

43.   But Chambers also said that Cisco is experiencing some of the problems that come with explosive growth.

44.   But Hormats of Goldman Sachs suggests that the explosive growth of capital mobility in the last few years may accomplish what high-minded pleas to serve the commonweal could not.

45.   But in the past five years or so, many of the smallest ones have disappeared while AOL and a handful of others have undergone explosive growth.

46.   But in time, the explosive growth began tapering off, driven in part by price wars that drove down the price of hair relaxers, for example.

47.   But increasingly, thanks to the explosive growth in ethnic populations and their buying power, advertisers have sought out these consumers in more sophisticated ways.

48.   But Postel and his colleagues did not foresee the explosive growth of the Internet.

49.   But Merrill Lynch is largely hoping to hold on to a high-profile analyst with expertise in an industry undergoing explosive growth.

50.   But strategic differences aside, each chain is planning explosive growth for the rest of this decade.