21.   Chiefs of newer conglomerates, who have not had to undo past excesses, are following that same theme.

22.   Claudia Goldin, a Chicago Ph.D. who now teaches at Harvard, offers a cheerier variation on the same theme.

23.   Clinton spoke on the same themes following her tour of the day care center at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center.

24.   Clinton stuck to the same theme this year, seven months after he was acquitted at a Senate impeachment trial.

25.   Cheney pressed the same theme in appearances at military contractors in New England.

26.   Could the post-spawn cod grunts be a variation on the same macho theme?

27.   Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sounded the same theme on Sunday.

28.   Earlier, in a speech at the airport, Arias sounded essentially the same themes before a largely middle class audience.

29.   Earlier this month, Vice President Al Gore sounded the same theme in hinting of a veto.

30.   Everywhere he went he heard the thumping stereophonic sound, the same theme, over and over again.