21.   Much time and treasure is spent trying to identify and promulgate the next hot color.

22.   Part of his off season was spent trying to overcome an addiction to painkillers at a drug rehabilitation center.

23.   Presumably most of his time will be spent trying to alleviate the universal hangover that will follow the Games.

24.   She spends years trying to break into show business and when she finally succeeds, she changes her mind.

25.   The documents listed how much money companies like Philip Morris had spent trying to secure protection in places like Albany.

26.   The energy Runyon needs for climbing is spent trying to keep his balance instead.

27.   The first year was spent trying to get approvals for a site in front of the Carter Center, which the Georgia Department of Transportation denied.

28.   The other half I spent trying to figure out how to dust it.

29.   The pressure on states and local communities to pay for such programs is expected to increase rapidly as Congress trims spending to try to balance the federal budget.

30.   The smile experiment became one of the many small epiphanies I experienced in the three days I spent deliberately trying to be good.