21.   Each night Ms. Soren totes up how often the convention speakers have mentioned those issues.

22.   Even in congressional districts where impeachment seemed like an obvious campaign touchstone, Democrats appear to be willing to mention the issue only subtly.

23.   Gore spokesman Chris Lehane said the vice president often mentions the issue during his interviews with Hispanic media.

24.   In addition, President Clinton and Dole have barely mentioned the issue during the campaign.

25.   In his first two years in office, when Democrats controlled Congress, he did not mention the issue once in a speech or other public forum.

26.   In the race against Faircloth he has continued to mention the issue in stump speeches and aired one health-care television spot earlier this fall.

27.   Indeed, at a rally here in Ohio just before his interview, he never mentioned international issues, and he rarely does from the stump.

28.   McCarley did not explicitly mention the issue in his letter to Riordan.

29.   Pingree noticed that when she mentioned the issue of high drug prices, pharmaceutical lobbyists were at her door the next morning.

30.   She mentioned family issues like environmental connections to breast cancer on Long Island and the impact of guns and televised violence on children.