31.   Parents of McCoy Elementary School students in Georgetown gave high marks to a kit designed to help children who come home to an empty house.

32.   Plutarch gives different marks to a man who falls on his own sword and one who requires the assistance of a servant to end it all.

33.   Public opinion polls have consistently shown the public giving high marks to Congress and high favorability ratings to their individual representatives and senators.

34.   Serious students of negotiation style might give low marks to this standoff.

35.   She gives high marks to velvet cigarette pants because they can be paired with many different types of blouses, including cropped sweaters and blousey shirts.

36.   Some of these cutting-edge companies give high marks to the school.

37.   So far, lawmakers like Conyers and Feingold give high marks to the Bush administration for identifying racial profiling as a serious national problem.

38.   Steve Hawk, editor of Surfer Magazine, the oldest surfing magazine in this country, gives high marks to Wahine.

39.   The Clinton administration gives high marks to Isaias for joining other leaders in the region in supporting diplomatic efforts to end civil wars in Somalia and the Sudan.

40.   The magazine also gives high marks to California-based Orchard Supply Hardware and to Sears Hardware, with most of its stores in the Northeast and Midwest.