31.   Glen Mason and Bill Snyder of Kansas and Kansas State, respectively, either took themselves out of contention or expressed a preference for their current situations.

32.   He expressed no preference about which pro team he ends up with.

33.   He declined to express a preference for any specific plan.

34.   He had instead expressed a preference for a program of drug testing and out-patient counseling.

35.   He noted that the Russians had expressed a preference for proceeding with the runoff elections that the opposition has rejected.

36.   If patients or their families expressed a hospital preference, the LaHues honored the request.

37.   In the primary, the PRI has also required that governors and other officials refrain from even expressing a preference for a candidate.

38.   In Philadelphia, though, some fans were not content simply to express their preference for Williams.

39.   In the past, Greenspan has expressed a preference for using the budget surplus to reduce the national debt.

40.   Investors could electronically express different preferences for the price and quantity to be traded, a function now handled by broker-dealers.