31.   State Sen. William Clay Jr., a St. Louis Democrat, said he never bought the argument that concealed weapons reduced crime.

32.   The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court did not buy this argument when made by the University of Maryland in defense of its black scholarship program.

33.   The jury did not buy that argument.

34.   The real outrage is that some people seem to buy this argument.

35.   Tubbs was not buying that argument.

36.   Washington and its European partners will also resume aid to independent media and opposition parties here, buying the argument that there will be no ouster of Milosevic otherwise.

37.   We say that without in any way buying the argument that Potts should be passed over because of his involvement in actions unpopular with the paranoid fringe.

38.   Clinton bought the argument in his meeting ... with President Jiang Zemin when he downplayed human rights concerns.

39.   Fowler did not buy that argument.