21.   Subordinated bonds are bonds with lower priority than other securities when dividends are paid or assets are distributed in bankruptcy.

22.   The relatively low price of gasoline has made gas mileage a lower priority for everyone.

23.   These notes pay a higher yield than the other securities in the issue but receive a lower priority in the case of default.

24.   Those who made the biggest donations assigned lower priority to intercollegiate athletics than to nearly every other aspect of college or university life that they were asked to rank.

25.   Top customs officials have already said they are giving lower priority to drug interdiction, which means that counterfeiting has moved even further down the list.

26.   To compensate, firms like Gap Inc., the retailer in San Francisco, have put interoffice mail on a lower priority to ensure that outside mail gets out.

27.   When AIDS seems to threaten, consistency is a lower priority.

28.   With a hurricane bearing down on the East Coast, the networks and even CNN have made the Wedgwood shooting a lower priority.

29.   With most voters, tax cuts get a lower priority than improved education and protection of Social Security.

30.   Baltic leaders have bristled at suggestions they might be locked out of NATO or given lower priority.