41.   If some critics regard that as a step down a slippery ethical slope, they should know that we long ago started along this path.

42.   If you buy the notion that Jobs feels a compulsion to retake the digital heights, take another step down the speculative path.

43.   In taking the first step down that path, the California system is responding to immense political pressures.

44.   It is going to have serious costs, and before we take another step down this road we should debate the price tag and reconsider our priorities.

45.   Later, Fujimori announced he would schedule new elections next year and step down when a new president was inaugurated.

46.   Mattingly remembers taking a few steps down the steep mountaineers route when the two climbers that he and Wingo met and photographed at the summit approached.

47.   Norwood joined a handful of Republican members of the House and Senate who have called on Clinton step down over his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

48.   Not so for the fellow standing a few steps down the bar from me, sipping Scotch and soda, no ice.

49.   Officials hope to choose a nominee before Louis J. Freeh steps down next month as director.

50.   On the south side of the house, facing the river, is the formal parterre, or Sunk Garden, five steps down from the terrace.