21.   A misdemeanor plea, if one is struck, would let both sides claim victory while providing a potentially important evidentiary step as the prosecutors build their case.

22.   A Maryland prosecutor, Stephen Montanarelli, testified Tuesday that he helped to build his case against Tripp with her own words.

23.   ABC executives are now looking into whether the statement about produce, a key premise on which Stossel built his case, was made without any basis in fact.

24.   After building a case that the IRS harasses and intimidates taxpayers, Congress wrapped up work last week on a bipartisan bill to rein in the agency.

25.   Almost nobody is talking about returning Russia to totalitarianism, but these days the reform movement does not have much else for building a case.

26.   Building a case.

27.   Building criminal cases is difficult because the justice system, using imported judges and lawyers, barely exists.

28.   Burton has shown no interest in building a case for campaign finance reform legislation.

29.   But as investigators built their case, they could not tell the Suttons.

30.   But building a case against him is harder than for perhaps any of the other candidates.