31.   As the growing legions of financial advisers jostle for customers, a small trade group is trying to step above the fray.

32.   Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the trade group for large businesses including Boston Edison and other utilities, had challenged the validity of the signatures.

33.   At least that is the finding of a recent study by the Newspaper Association of America, an industry trade group.

34.   At the American Peanut Council, a trade group, officials are hoping a vaccine will eliminate peanut allergies.

35.   At another, a product safety commissioner met with the leader of a trade group she regulated.

36.   Australia is a member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation trade group which met in Manila in November to pursue free trade.

37.   Banking on the ire of middle class homeowners, though, housing trade groups have already started to lobby against ending the deduction.

38.   Backed by state regulators and major industry trade groups, Nationwide attacked the federal rule on several grounds.

39.   Bale of the Geneva-based trade group said pharmaceutical companies operate in a world in which most new drugs are either costly duds or blockbusters.

40.   Barreto and his father, Hector Barreto Sr., have also been active with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Washington-based trade group.