31.   As a candidate for speaker, Livingston needs to please his colleagues to win their votes.

32.   At risk is the LDP not winning enough votes to form a government without the help of smaller political parties, Sims said.

33.   Aslan Maskhadov won the vote in a landslide.

34.   Backing the Gurkhas, who are well regarded in Nepal, wins votes.

35.   Bad-mouthing Texas costs nothing in Texas but may win votes in states where voters fear that a Bush presidency will turn their states into smaller versions of Texas.

36.   Back on dry land, Nixon befriends black people, old people and hippies in order to win their votes.

37.   Before the vote, the proxy contest was compared to a presidential campaign, as both sides fought to win shareholder votes.

38.   Before the disputed Florida election ever reaches the point of litigation, campaign officials said, they will try to win the vote outright for Vice President Al Gore.

39.   Belle is probably going to win the vote, and fans in Cleveland have no doubt about his candidacy.

40.   Both sides failed last month to win majority votes in separate shareholder ballots on board slates made up solely of their own members.