31.   After studying the issue for a week, Wal-Mart Canada said Thursday that it had decided the Canadians were right.

32.   After this first poll, the respondents are scheduled to receive nonpartisan information packets allowing them to study the issues.

33.   Aides say Lungren needs to study the issue.

34.   British Petroleum Plc too has bought a Bolivian forest to study the issue.

35.   Bush said Wednesday his lawyers are still studying the issue.

36.   Bush has simply said he favors an extension of the current moratorium on such taxation in order to study the issue.

37.   But a growing group of economists are joining psychologists and sociologists who have been studying the issue for years.

38.   But all Walsh could wangle was a promise that the Labor Department will study the issue.

39.   Bush economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey said in a telephone interview that while the Texas governor is studying the issue, he has not decided whether to call for repeal.

40.   Bush has always said only that his advisers were studying the issue.