41.   And Illinois, the only team with the talent to compete on a national level, played in essence two home games to get there.

42.   And in politics, it is dispiriting that the few breakthroughs that have occurred at the national level have never been repeated.

43.   And his track record in Texas suggests that Bush is sincerely committed to bipartisanship and believes that he can make it happen at the national level.

44.   And there has been only tentative progress in addressing the issues on the national level.

45.   And the expanded data are becoming available just as states and cities are taking over programs once operated at the national level.

46.   And the prospects of gun-control reform on the national level seem to have evaporated.

47.   And the win over UCLA in Hawaii has shifted talk to the national level, suggesting Santa Clara could advance a couple rounds in the NCAA Tournament.

48.   Annable recently pointed out in The Wall Street Journal that the Midwest has experienced jobless rates even lower than the national level without any resulting surge in labor costs.

49.   Architecture is still several generations ahead of the other design fields in deploying glamour at the national level, but it may not be profiting from that distinction.

50.   As election day dawned, it appeared the country was prepared to vote once again for divided government, at least at the national level.