51.   Ashcroft generally led in the polls when his opponent was alive.

52.   Aside from being off base, the opponents of equity are blind to recent history.

53.   At the same time, some opponents are outraged that the legislation would also ease food and medicine sales to several other countries, including Libya and Iran.

54.   Because opponents are skilled at parliamentary obstruction and because it is already summer, the issue will almost certainly die if it goes to conference committee.

55.   Blacks backed Clinton because, in short, of who his opponents were.

56.   Boris Becker knows who his next Wimbledon opponent is.

57.   Bradley has long been a staunch defender of affirmative action, as has been his opponent, Vice President Al Gore.

58.   A coach does not concede that the opponent is superior.

59.   A likely opponent might be Yukio Hatoyama, a wealthy heir of an old political family who heads the Democratic Party.

60.   A leading opponent was the American Academy of Neurology, which asked the AMA to reconsider its position.