51.   If Carl Everett simply had accepted this gift of an afternoon, a lot of the overhyped madness surrounding him would have disappeared.

52.   If they had not accepted the valuable gifts Hanssen passed them, they would have been very bad intelligence officers indeed.

53.   In his remarks Tuesday night, Clinton noted that Congress repeatedly had failed to enact legislation barring lawmakers from accepting gifts.

54.   In interviews, several lawmakers who accepted the gifts said they had not violated the ethics law.

55.   In August, former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy was charged for accepting gifts from companies doing business with his department.

56.   It also appeared that many lawmakers broke the law in accepting those gifts.

57.   It also appears that he accepted gifts of bulbs from fellow connoisseurs and was not above pleading with other gardeners who were less forthcoming.

58.   Instead of accepting the gift, Abraham asks Ephron to name his price, which proves to be exorbitant.

59.   International Olympic Committee members were under fire last year for accepting extravagant gifts.

60.   It is against FBI guidelines for agents to accept gifts from informants.