31.   European and Asian stock markets slid, though most of their declines ended as U.S. markets opened.

32.   Even in southwest New England, rain may end as snow showers.

33.   Farther west, rain showers will end as snow showers and flurries across southern Minnesota and Iowa.

34.   Ex-bosses fear ending as burger dispensers.

35.   Farther north, the showers may end as a little snow from northern Illinois to central Michigan as chilly air arrives in the wake of the front.

36.   For the New York Giants, it began with a bomb, but it ended as just another dud.

37.   He ended as the victor, though.

38.   He ended as the man who spoke for the powerless and the abused, in Harlem and the Appalachians and Vietnam.

39.   He moved up through the institutional hierarchy at NYNEX, starting as an information operator and ending as a manager of computer training.

40.   He started out the war as a first lieutenant and ended it as a lieutenant general commanding a jet fighter unit.