31.   The Department of Public Utilities rejected a competing plan to overlay the new area codes over present ones.

32.   The increased rates will apply to future customers as well as present ones.

33.   The present one, with no gravel under it, is breaking up badly.

34.   The proposed law would create a larger regulatory morass than the present one that conservatives and industry lobbyists find so burdensome.

35.   The present one preserves the facade and puts behind it overpriced living spaces, art galleries and clothing shops with Italian names.

36.   The Riadys and Huang were able to abuse the system because the present one invites abuse.

37.   The weakness in the tactic is that it assumes there will not be another IRA that will replace the present one if there are no political negotiations.

38.   There is, perhaps, not a lot to choose between the last two Democratic inaugurations and the present Republican one.

39.   They would rather die in familiar surroundings with their loved ones present.

40.   They fear it will produce a Parliament just as divided as the present one, perhaps with the Islamic-oriented Virtue Party as the largest bloc.