31.   Over the years, Pierce earned a reputation for smoothing the way for power plants that local residents did not want in their backyards.

32.   Paul Boudreau, executive director of the council, said that residents wanted to keep the area rural.

33.   Peggy Jackson, who directs recreation, has seen changes in the kinds of activities new residents want.

34.   Residents typically wanted to know whether they would lose their place in public housing if the computer broke down.

35.   Residents here wanted the emergency telephone system.

36.   Some Jacksonville residents want religious speech and prayer at graduation and others want a complete prohibition, regardless of constitutional infringements, he said.

37.   Some Michigan residents now want to do their best to give the auto industry a lift.

38.   Some residents do indeed want splitsville.

39.   Some residents want landlord licensing, something that Kansas City, Kan., now requires but which landlords in Kansas City, Mo., have lobbied against.

40.   Some residents want to save it and renovate it yet again.