31.   Digital Equipment Corp. said Wednesday that it returned to profitability during its second quarter, after five consecutive quarterly losses.

32.   Embarrassed by two consecutive losses, the team was fighting off some kind of depression, according to the diagnosis of coach Phil Jackson.

33.   Even after consecutive losses to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Expos were tied with the Mets.

34.   Finley earned his checkmate and sent his former teammates home with their second consecutive loss.

35.   Five consecutive losses can unnerve a team, and if Nomo was uptight on Wednesday, Manager Bill Russell was even more despondent on Thursday.

36.   For the Sonics, this was the best effort of the three consecutive losses, which only made it the most confounding.

37.   Four consecutive losses and five in your last six games can do that to you.

38.   For the Dodgers, it was their third consecutive loss.

39.   He appeared to be the only Clipper interesting in sending Vancouver home with an eighth consecutive loss.

40.   He helped give the Jets their first victory in more than a month, after three consecutive losses.