31.   The group has three months to buy back the shares and then it can extend the program for another three months.

32.   The program was eventually extended to science, vocabulary, literature and spelling.

33.   The pilot program will be extended to some residential customers next January.

34.   The president wants to extend the program for one more year, on the assumption that people who remain on welfare need extra help getting jobs.

35.   The program will be extended to small-grain growers throughout the southern Great Plains, including those in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas.

36.   The two automakers are extending those programs into January, although with shorter contract terms than before.

37.   They have, however, hinted that the program may be extended.

38.   A draft resolution was introduced by Britain, Portugal and Sweden on Wednesday which sponsors said did not extend the program indefinitely.

39.   A formal decision to extend the programs can only happen after the European Parliament offers its view on the issue.

40.   But the council said it would look favorably on extending the program for a third six-month period if there were no major problems during the second phase.