41.   Like a growing number of American workers, Coughlin has gradually taken advantage of new and cheaper electronic technologies to loosen the ties that bind him to the office.

42.   Loosens his tie a little bit?

43.   Most will turn out like Mark Murray of West Milford, N.J., who barely loosened his tie for his recent LASIK surgery by Hersh.

44.   Several churches have loosened ties to the convention by redirecting moneys to other groups such as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

45.   The middle-aged man in the gray suit, his wife in pearls, loosened his tie, sweat from his brow glistening under the lights of the auditorium.

46.   The West, especially Alberta, is now seriously seeking to loosen the ties that bind it to Canada, if not bolt from the country altogether.

47.   Tie loosened, brow creased, reading glasses perched down his nose, Guber pores over the class rosters and staff lists arrayed in a puddle of lamplight.

48.   Tie loosened, soft-soled walking shoes propped on his office desk in the Capitol, Rangel is expounding on some of them.

49.   While the Mitsui group is slowly loosening the ties that bind it, Toyota is increasing its relationships with certain group companies and earning its nickname, Toyota Bank.

50.   While in Hungary, he advised communist leaders on ways to loosen their ties to the Soviet Union.