31.   Last December, Britain ended years of opposition to a European defense strategy and agreed to help make the WEU more effective.

32.   Once again Israel called off a meeting between Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, aimed at a formal truce to end a year of fighting.

33.   Once again Israel called off a meeting between Arafat and Peres, aimed at a formal truce to end a year of fighting.

34.   President Mandela hails the signing of a new constitution in December as a fitting way to end the year.

35.   Some big-cap tech stocks, including Microsoft and Intel, actually ended the year higher.

36.   Superb was the way Schumacher started and ended the year.

37.   The agreement signed with great fanfare in Washington ended a year of fighting between Muslims and Croats in central Bosnia.

38.   That ended a year of fighting between Bosnian government forces and Croat militias.

39.   The airstrikes were launched Wednesday after diplomacy failed to end a year of fighting between Yugoslav forces and ethnic Albanians.

40.   The U.S.-brokered federation ended a year of bitter fighting between Muslim-led government troops and Bosnian Croat militias, but distrust between the two sides remains.