41.   After all, professional baseball grew hugely popular simply as spectator entertainment.

42.   After months of often acrimonious debates and hearings and a stop-and-go-trial in the Senate, Clinton is still as popular as ever.

43.   Almost overnight, wireless phones have become nearly as popular as traditional, wired phones.

44.   Although bebop was never as popular as the big-band sound, the music quickly became codified as the soundtrack of the intellectual and the hip.

45.   Boxing, horse racing, rowboat racing and bowling in saloons were more popular as entertainment for adults.

46.   But for some lawmakers, the planned arboricide is about as popular as a bulldozer in a Brazilian rain forest.

47.   But for some lawmakers, the planned arboricide is about as popular as a bulldozer in a Brazilian rainforest.

48.   But Chinana also noted that the event, once a highlight of the season, was no longer as popular as it had been.

49.   But it is still not as popular as white, black, or red.

50.   But he said that the congressman remained as popular as ever in his district and that the attacks on him would probably strengthen his support.