31.   Mike Moran, a spokesman for the committee, said yesterday that it would study the matter over the weekend.

32.   More than a dozen panels also were appointed to study other matters.

33.   Ms. Shalala said that she wanted to study the matter.

34.   Noting that it was a complicated issue, Chao said she would study the matter before making a decision.

35.   Now, however, we have the Internet with its endless numbers of intellectual doodlers studying such matters.

36.   Officials representing the billboard industry said they wanted to study the matter before commenting.

37.   One person close to the council said Selig was waiting to hear from the lawyers he has asked to study the matter.

38.   Peter Ditto, a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine who has studied the matter, pointed out that people changed their minds about these issues.

39.   Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said health officials would study the matter.

40.   Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., plans to offer a rival provision that would merely instruct the Department of Justice to study the matter.