31.   Major said the election was a fair way to resolve disputes among the Northern Ireland parties on how best to get the negotiations started.

32.   Ms. Franiak replied that she had not, provoking a lively dispute among her friends.

33.   Ognibene is himself at the center of the dispute among Queens Republicans.

34.   NWA broke up after business disputes among the rappers in the group, who also included Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella.

35.   Perry ordered the two to sort out the dispute among themselves.

36.   Schrempp said Daimler had further investment plans in Asia, beyond the minivan joint-venture in China, which has been delayed amid political disputes among Chinese authorities.

37.   Separately, hospital lobbyists were upset with what they had hoped would be a compromise aimed at resolving a dispute among health care providers vying for Medicare funds.

38.   Some of the spending bills are being held up because of disputes among Republicans themselves.

39.   Terry Gibson, the East Coast editor for Surfer magazine, says the dispute among surfers is inevitable.

40.   That has resulted in an especially troublesome dispute among some judges on the circuit.