31.   In the past, many researchers flew into storms, measured upper-level winds, and cut figures by a fourth to estimate ground wind speeds.

32.   Killings of Catholics and IRA figures by the Protestants have outnumbered killings by the IRA over the last three years, security officials here say.

33.   Multiply that figure by the number of years that will be left to retirement once you get your degree.

34.   Multiply those ghastly figures by three and you get the approximate number of people treated in emergency rooms for nonfatal gun wounds.

35.   Multiply this figure by the number of sections to find the total number of pickets.

36.   MRS. Magic Johnson, Wurtzel correctly notes, would not have become a sympathetic figure by admitting she had extramarital sex with thousands of people.

37.   Norman Mailer is such a mythic figure by now that it can be a distracting experience to actually read him.

38.   Pre-fire sales, jobs and production figures by department.

39.   School administrators mobilized for a post-Christmas invasion of the popular Pokemon cards, games and figures by banning the products in the classroom.

40.   She resolved to regain her pageant-winning figure by exercising every day.