21.   More than a year of his time was exhausted as he stumped from living rooms in rural Iowa to factory gates in New Hampshire mill towns.

22.   Passing drivers honked in support of the pickets, as is the custom here when striking auto workers picket in front of factory gates.

23.   So they stayed, sleeping on straw mats on the sidewalk by the factory gate, waiting for some stroke of good fortune they know will never come.

24.   The factory hoped to avoid communal tensions, but the pro-poppy protesters gathered at the factory gates.

25.   The workers walk around in wonderment, looking at the sparks, and then stroll out to the factory gate, where other mechanical activity is also frozen.

26.   When asked about the union outside the factory gates, Wang and her co-workers said no such election ever occurred.

27.   Workers, lining up outside the factory gates to pick up their delayed July paychecks on a gray October day, were both bitter and grateful.

28.   A sign on the factory gates warned that those who did not return to work by Monday would be fired.

29.   Angry, disappointed jobseekers picket at factory gates.

30.   But they refused to leave the factory gates for a planned march to the Serbian government building.