21.   The outcome could have a significant impact on Massachusetts, which has seen exports to China more than double in the past year despite the Asian economic slump.

22.   The outcome will have a big impact on consumers, who are likely to foot the bill in any system that Congress imposes.

23.   The outcome will have an enormous effect on the billions of dollars now being invested in advanced telecommunications networks.

24.   The Republicans are also holding a straw poll, but the outcome will have no binding effect on delegate selection.

25.   The outcome has far more than regional interest.

26.   The outcome will have a profound impact on both franchises.

27.   The outcome will have an effect on all of us, shaping what we read in the newspaper or see on the evening news.

28.   Then Boies indicated that he, too, thought the outcome had less to do with strategy and more to do with facts.

29.   Then came an unprecedented hit, unprecedented because never before in postseason play had the outcome of a series turned around on the last hitter.

30.   Unless Castro got stiffed, the outcome had to be somehow corrupt.