21.   Major needs the support of the nine Ulster Unionists to keep his narrow working majority in Parliament.

22.   Neither side referred to the deal as a coalition, though its effect will be to give the conservatives a working majority in Parliament.

23.   Recent polls show that the two competing coalitions in the election are virtually level, raising concern that any government that emerges will lack a working majority.

24.   That means the PP may have to form a coalition or an informal working majority with one or more smaller parties.

25.   The accord raised concern the government lacks a working majority in parliament.

26.   When a working majority is frustrated by tactics as opposed to votes, a little hardball is both in order and justified, and also likely to work.

27.   Other Western observers, however, have said it is less important who wins than the installation of a working parliamentary majority capable of running a government.

28.   A dozen dissident lawmakers announced last Saturday that they were withdrawing their support for FUNCINPEC, jeopardizing the working parliamentary majority it holds together with political allies.

29.   After no other party was able to cobble together a working majority, elections were called.

30.   Before the results began rolling in, a major concern had been whether either of the two leading parties could obtain a working majority to insure stability.