31.   A wiser tactic would have been to honor its treaty responsibilities and take the Japanese before a trade tribunal to win the same concessions.

32.   But another tactic would be to sort through the millions of ballots cast in the state and challenge as defective enough to overturn the election results.

33.   But if the views of voters here are any indication, the tactic may have been a little too transparent to have the desired effect.

34.   But nobody knows better that the announced police tactic is not new.

35.   But that tactic is shortsighted.

36.   But others disagreed, asserting that the best tactic would be to stall, if possible until his second term ended.

37.   But the government concluded that the tactic was untested in Europe, and might not pass muster in the British-style courts here.

38.   But the tactic may be deceptively appealing.

39.   But the better tactic would be to meet Bush in the middle where this can be done without violating core principles.

40.   But the worst tactic is to sit on the sidelines.