41.  Economic growth and job creation continue to be stronger in the South, as the northeastern U.S. keeps treading water.

42.  Ellison, who said he believed that the new entity would be a good long-term investment, predicted that the stock would tread water for the next six months.

43.  Even though Coca-Cola has consistently posted healthy earnings increases, its shares have treaded water over the last two years.

44.  Everyone else was treading water or hemorrhaging viewers.

45.  Fleet shares may be treading water, but they have been doing so in a market that has been on the skids for a year and a half now.

46.  For Dottie Calhoun, a Brooklyn landlord, owning property sometimes feels like treading water with pockets full of stones.

47.  For the most part, however, the supporting cast, like Ms. Prince, seems to be treading water.

48.  Fred Couples made the early burst, with Els treading water.

49.  He assures her they would have seen Andy had he been treading water out there.

50.  He may have been literally treading water but he stopped treading water, relationship-wise.