41.   The country is also gripped by a severe liquidity crunch, loss of foreign-investor confidence and a sharply slowing economy.

42.   The case gripped the country when Mrs. Smith first claimed her children were kidnapped in a carjacking.

43.   The cries for reform have been sparked by the deepening financial crisis gripping the country.

44.   The cutbacks are a typical reaction to the recession gripping the country, part of the larger Asian economic crisis.

45.   The economic slowdown that has gripped the country since the second half of last year has forced companies to cut production and jobs because of slumping demand.

46.   The elections, which the rival parties agreed to in March, are intended to end the cycle of violence and anarchy gripping the country.

47.   The industrial sector has been hardest hit by the economic slowdown that has gripped the country since the second half of last year.

48.   The other is the university campuses which have been the scene of student rallies demanding essential economic and political reform to solve the crisis gripping the country.

49.   The slowdown that has gripped the country since the second half of last year has forced companies to cut production and jobs.

50.   The travel fever that gripped the country after the fall of the Soviet Union is on the wane, as the ruble plummets and the economy continues to slide.