31.   Ms. Albright had to decide by Thursday whether to extend the ban, which has been renewed every six months.

32.   On Monday, he advocated extending a ban on handgun purchases to anyone convicted of domestic violence.

33.   Now Sen. Frank Lautenberg would extend the ban on gun purchases and ownership to people convicted of a domestic-violence offense.

34.   Now Wamp has found a novel way to extend the ban to his Democratic opponent in the fall campaign, Chuck Jolly.

35.   Q. So Congress should just extend the ban on Internet taxes and call it a day?

36.   Republican Chris Smith of New Jersey proposes to extend the ban to e-mail.

37.   That extends a ban imposed on American warships.

38.   The FDA declined to extend its ban to the prescription version, saying quinine sulfate occasionally is prescribed for malaria cases.

39.   The government decided today to extend the ban until October, or until competition increases because of new wireless telephone concessions the government plans to grant.

40.   The eight EU nations that backed extending the ban were the Netherlands, France, the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Portugal.