11.  But since the Taliban controlled most of the country, al-Qaida saw little need to depend on underground bases.

12.  But talks with the rebels inside Zaire, who control most of the border area, were inconclusive.

13.  By contrast, they controlled most of this game, and when they trailed, it was never by more than a couple of baskets.

14.  Doctors, though, have managed to control most of them with antidotes given before treatment or by changing doses.

15.  Even before American bombs began to fall in retaliation, the refugees said, the Taliban government, which controls most of the country, stopped paying its workers.

16.  Getting him requires routing the Taliban, the religious group that controls most of Afghanistan and provides bin Laden with safe harbor.

17.  Girls were not allowed to attend school during the more than five years the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan.

18.  He conceded France controlled most of the match, despite losing.

19.  He controls most of the government machinery in Belgrade, but not the army, which takes its orders from Kostunica.

20.  He does not oversee the U.S. Forest Service, which is reviewing its own fire management practices and which controls most of the acreage now burning in the state.