41.  Before long, Greer is dead, and the leaderless, unpopular mod squad is on its own in an investigation into murder and police corruption.

42.  Music behaving this way can seem to go at its own pace, because it is going at ours.

43.  Nearly 20 years after it was taken over by a steel company, Marathon Oil Co. is expected to be on its own again soon.

44.  Most analysts agree that KLM is too small to survive on its own, but the list of possible partners is dwindling.

45.  NexGen, which has been under financial pressures of its own, went public in May of 1995.

46.  Newsday came on as a sponsor of the Fall Series for several years in the 1980s, but the club has been on its own since then.

47.  Not surprisingly, the result is a written language that records informal speech rather than writing that can stand as an edited genre of its own.

48.  Not so magnificent, "The Magnificent Ambersons" is more a curiosity for movie buffs than a movie that stands on its own.

49.  Of last fall's 42 new entries, not one was considered a bona fide hit capable of standing on its own.

50.  One can _ and probably should _ argue with the details, but the spirit of his book stands on its own.