21.  Due in large part to the expensive acquisition in 1988 by the Restaurant Co., an investor group, Friendly's has a very high long-term debt.

22.  Due in large part to the small audiences they normally attract, the cable news networks all took huge leaps in viewership from November 1999 to November 2000.

23.  Due in large part to the salary cap and the impending luxury tax, few teams could make serious runs at the bigger names this summer.

24.  Despite these problems, Gati said a coup is highly unlikely, in large part because Castro's state security force has kept opposition to a minimum.

25.  Determining what historically was the largest outbreak of cholera is difficult, because it depends in large part on the area and period of time involved.

26.  Development, construction and sales of real estate are a large part of the economy.

27.  During a trial, the dispute hinged in large part on a fight over the meaning of specific terms in U.S. Surgical's patents.

28.  During most of those years, the Seattle-area economy as a whole was flirting with a recession, due in large part to job cutbacks at Boeing.

29.  During the Cold War, major technological advances were in large part a product of the Department of Defense and its requirements.

30.  During the gettin'-jiggy-with-it days of 1998, moviegoers kept trying to one-up themselves, and, in large part, they succeeded.