31.   It had done so under the command of Richard A. Hackborn, now a Hewlett-Packard board member and a leading advocate of the merger.

32.   It was part of a criminal sentence handed down by Judge Ted Poe, a leading advocate of public shame as a means of punishment.

33.   Kohl, the leading advocate of the euro, studiously rejects the forecasts of independent economists that his government will not meet those criteria.

34.   Mitchell has scheduled a meeting on Thursday morning with other leading Democratic advocates of health care legislation.

35.   Murkowski is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a leading advocate of opening the refuge to drilling.

36.   Ms. Nelson was a leading advocate of Catholics accused of terrorist offenses by the British government.

37.   On Capitol Hill, Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, is a leading advocate of privatization.

38.   One leading advocate on corrections policy argued that the proposal would do more harm than good and would eventually cost billions of dollars for more prison space and staff.

39.   Raup is a leading advocate of a theory that mass extinctions are periodic, and that all or most have been caused by the impacts of asteroids or comets.

40.   Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., the committee chairman and a leading advocate of expansion, predicted easy ratification.