51.   So did some politicians, who are proposing legislation that would quash the double surcharges.

52.   Stephen Anderson, superintendent of the Dublin city schools in Ohio, said politicians should do whatever is necessary to reach a compromise.

53.   The fundamentals are what matters, and politicians will do well in direct proportion to their acceptance of that.

54.   The irony is that politicians do more to boost gasoline prices than Big Oil moguls, but most of the gas-consuming public has never caught on.

55.   The more confused the public becomes about what the politicians are doing, the better the politicians like it.

56.   The politicians must now do two things if they are to extract sensible health-care reform from the present shambles.

57.   The world was watching last week as American politicians did their odd little rain dances on that endlessly discussed world trade pact.

58.   Their faxes poured into state legislatures considering whether to support the conference, and local politicians did what they usually do.

59.   There is little that the politicians can do about the stakes.

60.   There is no telling what the neighbors are capable of, what the politicians will do.