31.   Eberharter was named right after top-seeded Maier, and eight years after that promising start at the World Championships, he won the silver medal in Nagano.

32.   For political-drama devotees, it can now be definitively said that the primaries, despite a promising start, were a bust.

33.   He had a promising start.

34.   He made his third promising start Monday night, pitching well enough to allow only one unearned run in five and one-third innings.

35.   He says he has put the accident in the past, but it undoubtedly derailed what had been a very promising start to his career.

36.   His first real proposal, it was a promising start.

37.   His quick engagement with Congo is a promising start.

38.   His speech was a promising start in that it drew the right lesson from his precarious victory, with its absence of a numerical mandate.

39.   It does get off to a fairly promising start.

40.   It got off to a promising start.