31.   The bidding can last anywhere from one day to one week, but the real action begins a few hours before bidding closes.

32.   The action begins a half-hour before the curtain goes up.

33.   The audience sits and patiently waits for the typing to be over so that the action can begin again.

34.   The fact remains, though, that the Ways and Means Committee, where the serious action will begin, has made irresponsibility easier.

35.   The real action began Tuesday evening.

36.   Then the action began.

37.   Then the action begins, Van Essen said.

38.   Those negative actions began with slavery and have continued with African-Americans being treated as second-class citizens for more than two centuries.

39.   Watch for the action to begin heating up around the second turn.

40.   President George W. Bush said U.S. and British military action has begun in Afghanistan.