21.   A senior member of the Appropriations Committee, Reid has arranged for Nevada to receive an ever larger share of federal highway money.

22.   Agencies that successfully negotiate low rates with parents can keep a larger share of the per diem.

23.   Ahmanson has been selling off its smaller outposts, such as a branch system in Illinois, to concentrate on the markets in which it has a larger share.

24.   But a larger share of the credit should probably have gone to Ross Perot, who prevented the Democratic ticket from winning a majority in either year.

25.   But in other election years, individual candidates have gotten a far larger share of the money these leadership committees raised.

26.   But it would finance the program in part by requiring states and local governments to shoulder a larger share of the administrative costs for food stamps and Medicaid.

27.   But since the beginning of this century, Americans have consistently embraced the principle that calls for the wealthy to pay proportionately larger shares of their income in taxes.

28.   But some groups are accounting for a larger share.

29.   But people who chose more expensive plans would have to pay a larger share of the premium.

30.   But the retiring baby boom generation is so big that it will take a larger share of young workers to replace the retirees whose jobs require college.