31.   The assault came amid signs the party is divided on key issues.

32.   The chief issue dividing the parties is what to do with trillions of dollars in projected budget surpluses over the next decade.

33.   The bitter primary won by the Republican nominee, George Landrith III, so divided the party that it never regrouped.

34.   The crisis seemed so severe, the parties so divided, that some observers at the time thought Civil War II was about to break out.

35.   The failure to pass legislation regulating managed care also divided the parties.

36.   The parties are divided.

37.   The only candidate who does, Steve Forbes, has divided the party over his flat tax just as deeply as Buchanan has divided it over protectionism.

38.   The party is still divided between so-called realists, like Joschka Fischer, its leader, and the so-called fundamentalists committed to its pacifist, ecology-friendly roots.

39.   The parties were divided over the scope of the decision.

40.   The Republican nominee, George C. Landrith III, won a bitter primary that so divided the party it never regrouped.