31.   An intelligence report says that the Taliban leader escaped one strike by about five minutes, according to an American official.

32.   And for about a half century after the depression, the region would undergo another population boom, all the while without a single strike by a major hurricane.

33.   And if strikes by writers and actors do hit by the summer, reality will be the standard fare for the fall.

34.   And since then, as strikes by public sector workers have multiplied, the mood of malaise has deepened.

35.   At this time next year, the stories surrounding baseball will focus on the possibility of a strike by the players to pre-empt an off-season lockout by the owners.

36.   AUTO SALES HURT BY STRIKE General Motors and Chrysler reported disappointing September sales as an eight-week strike by car haulers began to take its toll.

37.   Aznar then stood his ground in the face of a one-day strike by government workers.

38.   Blackwell pointed to a recent strike by Boeing engineers as a successful example of labor moving into a new sector.

39.   Boeing seems distracted by its recent merger binge and a surprising strike by usually tractable white-collar engineers.

40.   Booms have even been ascribed to tamer disasters like strikes by professional football players that leave a lot of men with uninterrupted free hours on Sundays.