21.   A portable ramp can be hooked to the car bumper, so lame pets can make the grade.

22.   A prolonged strike could cut tax revenue just as the government is striving to keep its deficit down to make the grade for European monetary union.

23.   After all, plenty of other disorders have made the grade.

24.   Ah, the dream is to make the grade on some NFL draft board and have his name called out next weekend.

25.   But all that changed last May, when Italy made the grade and the pressure for austerity eased.

26.   But he did attend two years of night classes at the Kansas City School of Law, making decent grades.

27.   But in order to make the grade they have to cost less to manufacture than their predecessors did.

28.   But individually, its members did not make the grade.

29.   But once Italy made the grade last spring, dissension and power struggles sprang back to life.

30.   Children who make the grade are offered formal training, even if they have no previous experience in the sport identified.