21.   Across the state, the Yankees steel themselves for their title defense in a bustling big-league city, down the boulevard from a cluster of strip clubs.

22.   According to the Sunday Times of London, their entertainment expenses included excursions with Enron executives to the Houston strip club Treasures.

23.   But now they are indignant about being written off by city officials who have proposed shunting strip clubs and porn shops to industrial areas like Hunts Point.

24.   Carlino formerly managed Scores, a lucrative Manhattan strip club that was tied to the Mafia.

25.   City officials would not reveal when enforcement would actually begin, saying inspections of sex shops and strip clubs would be more successful if they were kept secret.

26.   Colleen M. Bullinger, a wine and liquor seller for J. Lewis Cooper Co. in Detroit, said she has entertained clients at area strip clubs several times.

27.   Competition from Los Angeles strip clubs was making it hard to keep the Chi Chi Club afloat.

28.   Critics argue that pornography, strip clubs and escort services objectify and demean women, turning them into second-class citizens in the eyes of many men.

29.   Defense lawyers contend that men surrounded by nude women in the debauched environment of a strip club often spend their money stupidly.

30.   Duffey guaranteed it will not be home to another strip club.