31.   Orky is the kind of monster that you never see but that can inhabit the bodies of people, after which they act like children again.

32.   Pataki vetoed a bill last year that would have set up a separate industrial agency for the Bronx, acting after protests from Giuliani and the other four boroughs.

33.   Police Minister Moshe Shahal said he acted after police and security investigators determined that the offices violated a law against any political activity by the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem.

34.   Plummer said in July that at times last year, he was bewildered by the way players acted after losses.

35.   Rand said he would act after receiving confirmation at a hearing next Wednesday that Ms. Sorensen and her child had returned to Denmark.

36.   Republicans say they want to bring the bill to the House floor early next month, with Senate leaders hoping to act soon after that.

37.   She originally wanted to be a dancer but had redirected her efforts toward acting after suffering a back injury.

38.   She acted after enduring a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse.

39.   She acted after lawyers for the IRS and the taxpayers stipulated that no deficiencies existed.

40.   Some accounts said that Adams decided to act after his son was assaulted in the Capitol by a reporter.