41.   Beyond developing their own products, many of the food giants are seizing the opportunity to jump into the reduced-fat business through acquisitions.

42.   Both countries should seize the opportunity for rapprochement.

43.   Both Microsoft and its critics seized the opportunity to cock their guns in what is shaping up to be one of the biggest showdowns in antitrust history.

44.   A few seize the opportunity to stand out.

45.   A couple of the rodents immediately seized the opportunity and took up residence somewhere in the attic above the kitchen.

46.   A laid-off Enron employee and a California T-shirt business have seized the opportunity to inject a little dark humor into the biggest bankruptcy story in U.S. history.

47.   A nation groping for peace and seizing any opportunity to negotiate with nations once considered implacable enemies cannot be said to have a Masada Complex.

48.   A waiter in a nearby diner, seizing an opportunity, takes a job as a grinder.

49.   Administration officials seize every opportunity to point out the local benefits.

50.   After a reformist president, Leonid Kuchma, took office last year, there was pressure in Washington to seize the opportunity and get privatization going.