31.   But to Reed and his associates, it is a stepping stone on the path to a market in which growth is literally exponential.

32.   By this time in his career, all the stepping stones should have been crossed and Taylor should have been snugly in place in the Yankee rotation.

33.   Drug traffickers use the islands of the Caribbean as stepping stones on their way to the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

34.   Ellerbe has since been selected to attend the Army War College, which is typically a stepping stone to promotion.

35.   Even with offers like that, few Stanford graduates say they need any stepping stones to their dream jobs.

36.   Everything is touchable, open to close-up inspection and exploration via paths and stepping stones.

37.   For most budding filmmakers, having the film appear on the Web is not an end in itself, merely a stepping stone to the more established entertainment world.

38.   For others, like the Kims, the church is a stepping stone to belonging, the first American institution they dared approach where they felt at ease.

39.   For Palestinians, the Israeli transfer of Hebron is merely a stepping stone to a broader goal of nationhood, with Jerusalem as the capital.

40.   For most astronauts, NASA is a stepping stone to other things.