21.   Suddenly, nearly all the parties have leapfrogged the threshhold issues and gone directly to the ultimate questions.

22.   The result on the page was the spectacle of ordinary life alternately bruised and entranced by ultimate questions.

23.   The ultimate question about handwriting analysis, Mnookin said, is one not yet answered by the Supreme Court.

24.   The ultimate question is whether a blank check can buy a candidate more than a short-lived blip in the polls.

25.   The ultimate question is whether the plan signaled that the shock waves of the economic crisis had finally impelled Russian leaders to act.

26.   The ultimate question lurking about the commemoration is whether NATO might cross the Balkan Rubicon and send ground troops into the costly, inconclusive fray.

27.   THE ULTIMATE QUESTION Scientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question.

28.   The ultimate question, of course.

29.   The ultimate question posed by lethal injection, however, concerns what may be a peculiarly American capacity for denial.

30.   The ultimate question, however, is how exacerbation experiments can be reconciled with a standard of good medical care that runs contrary to such practices.