31.   Afterward, the Dodgers seemed as distressed about the prospects for Blowers as for the manner in which they lost this game.

32.   All this may seem as abstract and impractical as the theory of perfect competition -- and for many years it was dismissed as just that.

33.   All evening, it seemed as the Nets they were playing catch-up, even before they took the floor.

34.   But after a line-drive smacked into his wrist in the third, Clemens did not seem as crisp.

35.   But all the solutions proposed so far seem as fragile and tenuous as the grid itself.

36.   But Dimitrov seems at least as good a strategist in the cause.

37.   But diversity did not seem as pressing a priority at the lectern.

38.   But any solution to the Kuriles seems as far away now as ever.

39.   But he seemed as concerned with defending himself against the charge that he had cut school as with having attacked his mother.

40.   But here Hirsch seems as bone-weary and disaffected as a veteran of too many ugly wars.