41.   Combine the landmines with defective unexploded bombs and hundreds of cluster bomblets that have been dropped in recent weeks the danger is literally a step away in many areas.

42.   Coach Jim Fassel has kept punter Brad Maynard, whose average punt yardage has dropped in recent weeks, from kicking all week to rest a sore lower back.

43.   Co-owner Jim Mitchell said Levin drops in several times a week, puffing a big cigar, wearing dirty T-shirts and cutoffs.

44.   Corn and sugarcane output also dropped in the fourth quarter, which could fuel inflation.

45.   Criminal charges against them were dropped in October, but they now face possible disciplinary action by the school.

46.   Crude oil prices are expect to fall in the next three months, and demand for European oil product exports is expected to drop in the next five years.

47.   Democratic Party officials say their fundraising dropped slightly in the days just after the allegations became public, but have been rising since then.

48.   DiIulio referred to recent reports from New York, Houston and a number of other large cities that their crime rates have dropped in the last few years.

49.   Domestic gas production has actually dropped slightly in the last few years, analysts say.

50.   Demand for gasoline is expected to drop in weeks to come now that the traditional summer driving season in the U.S. is over.