41.   After Nike increased its wages several times, he says, some activists are ready to declare victory and move on.

42.   AIDS activists were wary about calling attention to relapses into unsafe behavior for fear the information would inflame the campaign against gay civil rights.

43.   AIDS is back on the front page, and the activists are back in business, drawing strength from their old enemy.

44.   Also rehired was union activist Bruce Froemming, who ranked near the bottom in the poll.

45.   But activists were encouraged that the United States appeared to be responding to increasing international pressure brought on by the recent attacks.

46.   But anti-sweatshop activists have been skeptical of the report ever since it was first proposed.

47.   But anti-smoking activists were vocally jubilant.

48.   But Ayres said that while Republican activists are telling their leadership to stand firm, independent voters are probably disgusted with the image of gridlock.

49.   But civil rights activists have also been adamant in demanding that the governor nominate an outsider.

50.   But consumer activists are skeptical.