21.   For the second year running, the winners of the annual Academy Awards are all but foregone conclusions a day before the envelopes are opened.

22.   For the second year running, President Clinton is trying to block Republicans from enacting a broad tax cut.

23.   Groupe des Assurances Nationales SA narrowed its full-year loss as provisions against real estate loans dragged it into the red for the second year running.

24.   Groupe des Assurances Nationales SA narrowed its full-year loss, as provisions against real estate loans kept it in the red for the second year running.

25.   ITALIAN stock indexes rose to records for the second day running, paced by a rally in bank stocks that was driven by expectations of mergers and profit growth.

26.   Jennifer Aniston, who was attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, accepted on videotape her trophy for favorite female TV performer for the second year running.

27.   That decision would mean that the remaining fuel needed to keep the second engine running would have followed the same leak into the sea.

28.   The government canceled one of two GKO auctions yesterday when Merrill Lynch backed out for the second week running.

29.   They come in as prohibitive favorites for the second year running, but the differences between this team and the one a year ago are marked.

30.   A Chinese court on Tuesday mysteriously postponed the trial of two labor activists for the second day running, a human rights group said.