31.   The first three Rangers reached base as Darryl Hamilton and Ivan Rodriguez singled, and Clark doubled to drive in Hamilton.

32.   The governor was in Washington last week, lobbying for Georgia bases as next rounds of closures loom.

33.   The Marines gave a strong indication Monday that they will use the base as a staging area from which to conduct hit-and-run attacks.

34.   The notion of him as Mr. Yankee is about as far off base as DiMaggio being remembered as Mr. Coffee.

35.   The planes returned safely to their bases as huge plumes of smoke billowed over Pale, about nine miles southeast of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

36.   The practice defies the conventional wisdom that running mates should split up to cover as many bases as possible.

37.   The project, code-named Cityscape, will go after the same advertising and readership bases as online newspapers.

38.   The silver pilots, who are concentrated in such bases as Newark, Oakland, Anchorage, and the Philippines, tend to be much stronger union supporters.

39.   This island, he suggested, is a hotbed of smugglers who see the base as a threat to their livelihood.

40.   TWA could use its Kansas City overhaul base as collateral for additional financing under a proposal included in its massive debt-restructuring plan.