31.   But many say he has offered specific solutions to small problems, while failing to inspire the public in a time of crisis or make the government run smoothly.

32.   But the amendment is general in its terms and unlikely to offer concrete solutions, analysts said.

33.   But she could offer no solution because, she said, the couple should never have artificially created them.

34.   But the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, who knows France well, did offer a solution.

35.   Clinton dispatched warships and fighter jets to the region, and French and Russian negotiators offered a solution.

36.   Certainly in his fiction and in interviews, Houellebecq pours scorn indiscriminately on leftists, rightists, feminists, environmentalists and anyone who pretends to offer solutions.

37.   Chip time offers one solution to the problem of gridlock at the beginning of most marathons.

38.   Community leaders view both Houston projects as models for other cities, because they offer solutions to national concerns.

39.   Convertible funds offer one solution.

40.   Corporate Compensation Plans of Danbury, Conn., is offering a solution to this problem.