21.   Democrats scored a victory earlier this month when Bush signed an economic stimulus package that was stripped of most of the tax cuts the president was seeking.

22.   Donohue also scored major victories on Capitol Hill, including getting greater funding for highway construction and a more favorable tax and regulatory climate for trucking.

23.   Deutsche Bank scored another victory last year when it recruited Edson Mitchell, co-head of fixed income capital markets at Merrill Lynch.

24.   Focusing on job applicants with the poorest skills and employment records will make it hard to score many victories.

25.   For two decades, she has battled the auto industry and the highway lobby on safety issues, scoring more victories than defeats.

26.   He has, he believes, a remote chance of winning, if he can score a victory in the Middle West.

27.   He left college and joined the Flying Tigers, the band of daring volunteer U.S. aviators who scored victories against the Japanese.

28.   He predicted that the NRA will score victories as well as suffer defeats on the House floor.

29.   He scored a victory on the technology agreement and sought to stabilize the shaky U.S. relationship with China by agreeing to visit Beijing.

30.   He scored victories in the Delaware and Arizona contests, but ranked fourth in the all-important Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.