21.   Drug traffickers sometimes discreetly settle scores by kidnapping their targets, torturing them and dumping their bodies in the desert.

22.   European and Arab ambassadors commonly ask whether Bush is looking to use the battle against terrorism to settle old scores.

23.   Enemies who tried to settle scores with violence would be met with similar destruction, he said.

24.   Finally, the score had been settled.

25.   Finally, Thornhill and Palmer seem too intent on settling scores.

26.   From John Adams onward, presidents have taken up the quill to tell their story, secure their place in history, or settle old scores.

27.   George W. Bush has repeatedly denied that settling old scores is a motive force in his race against Al Gore, but almost no one believes him.

28.   Given the sums of money at stake in Russia, and the national habit of settling scores with a Kalashnikov, his life would be at risk.

29.   Go figure how they settle scores in Brooklyn.

30.   He acknowledges that his candidacy is a long shot, and insists it is not about settling scores.