31.   Already, Washington is spending record amounts to prop up growers.

32.   Breyer also suggested that the compelling free-speech issue here was not the right of individual candidates to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money.

33.   Bush, who did not agree and is free to spend unlimited amounts, has not released his February numbers.

34.   Buss said competition is better if every team is spending a relatively similar amount.

35.   But almost everyone agrees that even that amount is spent inefficiently among poorly coordinated efforts.

36.   But he suggested that they were permitted under election rules that allow state and national party organizations to spend limited amounts on behalf of federal candidates.

37.   But many scientists fear that communities are spending large amounts of money on problems that are more imaginary than real.

38.   But recognition will come, since the four are expected to spend unprecedented amounts over the next year.

39.   But since then, he contends, he has spent unusual amounts of time tending to business at home, returning every weekend to work the grass roots.

40.   But the amounts they are spending to build Web sites offer clues to how they see the future.