31.   Guns have replaced fists as a means of settling scores.

32.   Governor Jeb Bush of Florida will seek reelection next year, stoking anticipation in a race in which Republicans and Democrats will try to settle old scores.

33.   He never hesitated to use his fists to settle a score in a game, but rarely did it on his own account.

34.   He warned that the United States should not use talk of terrorism to settle old scores with Iran.

35.   His goals, suggests Brock Yates, author of an unauthorized biography of Ferrari, were to win racing championships and settle scores with old rivals.

36.   Holding up essential legislation to settle scores is not the way to do it.

37.   His enemies portray him as a vindictive man given to imperious airs, but Bulger Tuesday declined to respond to reporters pressing him to settle old scores.

38.   However, the elder Erickson offered to go settle a few scores on behalf of his son.

39.   If so, he settles scores with his spiteful but amusing treatment of a doofus boss and a hard-guy priest.

40.   In a city administered by the European Union and heavily dependent on foreign aid, guns and knives are not used to settle ethnic scores.