31.  As a consequence, our taxes buy less today because a bigger share of them is consumed each year in paying interest on that debt.

32.  As a consequence, we're sort of losing our steam internally.

33.  As a country, our tastes are diverse enough and our ideals fractured enough and our demographic marketing strategies sophisticated enough to make a unifying magazine sensibility almost unimaginable.

34.  As a couple, we are at home in our suburban lifestyle.

35.  As a defense, all the pressure's on our shoulders.

36.  Despite burning up the phone and computer lines, organizers lamented, "Our voices were not widely heard by the public."

37.  Delsener had made $250,000 since the beginning of our relationship, while we had lost exactly that much.

38.  Curiously enough, in the United States in the 1930s we, too, invented a national music and dance that had the potential to unify our nation.

39.  Delta spokesman Tom Donahue said the airline is "in discussions with Boeing, and it is our intention to defer some deliveries."

40.  Current law provides community programs to help our troubled youth _ not confinement.