31.   About the same time in Hartford, Curry conceded defeat.

32.   After months of trying to bury campaign finance reform and then trying to kill it through endless delay, Republican leaders effectively conceded defeat.

33.   After weeks of trying to add to the bill two provisions objectionable to President Clinton and congressional Democrats, Republican leaders conceded defeat.

34.   After the PRI handed out official preliminary returns effectively making Labastida the victor late Sunday night, Madrazo appeared on Mexican television early Monday morning conceding defeat.

35.   Broderbund Thursday conceded defeat, saying it would not raise the ante.

36.   Both Sasser and Cooper had conceded defeat by mid-evening.

37.   Buchanan conceded defeat to Dole in Super Tuesday voting but vowed to continue what he sees as his battle for the heart of the Republican Party.

38.   But Biljana Plavsic, the Bosnian Serb president on whom the West placed its hopes for isolating the more nationalistic Serbian political forces, has conceded defeat.

39.   But administration officials worked for a year on such legislation, modeled on a plan negotiated by the states and the tobacco industry, before conceding defeat last June.

40.   But he was not ready to concede defeat.