31.   Long-term studies are under way, but no one knows for sure whether preventive surgery will stack the odds in favor of the patient.

32.   Military historians say the odds were stacked against African-American troops during World War II from the onset.

33.   National statistics show the odds are stacked against people facing death due to chronic liver disease.

34.   One is that the odds have been stacked against the black farmer from the beginning.

35.   She said she is used to having the odds stacked against her clients.

36.   Still, the odds were stacked against Mary Ann Brandt, too.

37.   That, in turn, experts say, stacks the odds against released inmates and threatens the safety of the community.

38.   The McConnells are not looking to reinvent their former life so much as to escape it, but even in Arizona the odds are stacked against them.

39.   The odds are stacked against private liberal arts colleges, the experts say.

40.   The odds are stacked against the Yankees, despite their pride and history.