31.   Display a mastery of substantive issues.

32.   During the meetings in Baghdad, the Iraqis refused to discuss substantive issues, but demanded that sanctions be lifted because there was no more disarming to be done.

33.   For Al Gore, MTV was the place today to talk about more substantive issues.

34.   For one thing, his portrait shows a group of people with virtually no interest in substantive issues.

35.   From the beginning, the campaign focused on personalities and soundbites more than substantive issues, an American approach to politics imported to Israel by both Barak and Netanyahu.

36.   He denied agreements on substantive issues had been reached and said the wording of the plan implementing the sale still must be worked out.

37.   Human rights activists and Tibetans, however, hope Clinton can make progress on a variety of substantive issues.

38.   If it takes this long to get them to agree on procedure, Mitchell thought, how on earth will we ever get to the substantive issues?

39.   In general, the GOP wives are avoiding substantive issues and say they are giving their candidate-husbands no policy advice.

40.   It distracts the country away from any substantive issues at election time.