41.   French public services, especially hospitals and transport, remain among the best in the world.

42.   He remains among the best fielding first baseman the game has ever known.

43.   His major interest there was directing student theatricals, and the performing arts remain among his great passions.

44.   In a nation edging anxiously toward the millennium, the need for sleep, and a tranquil place for doing so, remain among the few constants.

45.   In other categories, however, because of pollutants left from an era of unrestrained dumping, New York Harbor remains among the most toxic in the nation.

46.   In Italy, public support for union remains among the highest in Europe, because it is seen cutting inflation and forcing more efficient management from the government.

47.   Indian reservations, by most measurements, remain among the poorest places in the nation.

48.   It makes sense that the works in which they appear have throughout the centuries remained among the most frequently performed in the canon.

49.   It may be hard to tell whether a torpid cat, barely blinking its eyes, remains among the living.

50.   It was clear, too, that deep differences remained among leaders of English-speaking Canada.