41.   With time running out before Election Day, candidates and interest groups across the country are waging bidding wars over the steadily dwindling supply of television air time.

42.   With the United States launching air strikes in Afghanistan, Pentagon officials have grown increasingly worried about the dwindling supply of drones.

43.   Worries about shortages of grain eased as the Agriculture Department delivered the first good news in months about dwindling supplies of corn and wheat.

44.   A plunge in the number of heroin overdose deaths in the Norwegian capital may due to dwindling supplies from Afghanistan, an official said Wednesday.

45.   Among the biggest strains, he said, are the lack of running water, dwindling supplies of food and the inability of people to reach medical care.

46.   But much remains to be done to resolve the problems facing the West Coast, where commercial fishermen are pitted against aboriginal interests over dwindling supplies of salmon.

47.   But dwindling supplies of the vaccine this summer forced the Pentagon to scale back its plans.

48.   Crude and products futures rebounded at the New York Mercantile Exchange Friday which was buoyed by concerns over available supply and a dwindling supply.

49.   Dwindling supplies of heroin from Afghanistan may have contributed to a plunge in the number of heroin overdose deaths in the Norwegian capital, an official said Wednesday.

50.   Dwindling supplies have forced the Defense Department to end inoculations for all troops except those in South Korea and the Persian Gulf region.