51.   Unlike in the previous decade, most avoided the trap of overexpanding.

52.   What had been naive attempts at entertainment in the previous decade took on the more ominous tone of exploitation.

53.   Parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia last month removed the last vestiges of the power structure that Milosevic had built up over the previous decade.

54.   Another bank official said the assertions from New York referred to dealings repeatedly described publicly by the bank in previous decades.

55.   But Thompson said he doubted a few more years of the embargo would succeed where the previous decades of choking off trade had failed.

56.   Farmers today should realize that their financial troubles are not unprecedented, and not as bad as in some previous decades, Poole said.

57.   Fiat meant jobs for entire generations of Italian families, drawing epic migrations of workers from the poorer south in previous decades.

58.   He also conceded that it was likely that some accounts belonging to dead Jews had been closed in previous decades by corrupt bank officials who had taken the money.

59.   He took the job at Fresno State and pledged to revive a program with just two winning seasons in the previous decade.

60.   In previous decades, hybrids developed in ways that prevent them from producing seeds after harvest that would grow into a viable plant the next year.