21.   Even larger New York investment banks, including Lehman Brothers Holdings and Salomon are mentioned as potential merger candidates as banks move into Wall Street.

22.   Fan-favorite Hideo Nomo appeared as good a candidate as any to get the Russell Era started with a victory.

23.   Frazier has been a team player, deflecting talk of being a Heisman Trophy candidate as the Cornhuskers continued their quest to defend their national championship.

24.   Galindo was not considered as strong a candidate as Martinez in Chihuahua, a state that borders New Mexico and Texas.

25.   Gore has been using the issue of Bob Jones University, which does not allow interracial dating, to paint the Republican candidates as weak on civil rights.

26.   He remains optimistic, describing both candidates as supportive of innovation.

27.   He views the other candidates as moderates and no match for his conservative convictions and message.

28.   I have interviewed candidates for president of the United States to such down-ballot candidates as peace justices and precinct constables.

29.   In a complex political chess game, Republicans are promoting the Green candidate as a liberal alternative to Udall.

30.   If there is a black hockey hero now, goaltender Grant Fuhr of the St. Louis Blues is as good a candidate as any.