31.   Making it to the Masters is only the first hurdle.

32.   Money, however, is needed to make it past the first hurdles of development, since no big pharmaceutical companies have yet chipped in with serious investments.

33.   Ms. Llanos has passed that first hurdle, she is writing a memoir during her weekends and summer vacations.

34.   Morales said the first hurdle is determining whether his office has jurisdiction to do anything about activities run by a federally recognized Indian tribe on its land.

35.   President Clinton and congressional Republicans got over their first big hurdle when they reached an agreement Sunday on a temporary spending bill to reopen the government.

36.   Shays said Friday that his first hurdle would be to convince House Republican leaders to schedule a vote.

37.   Still, the programs have cleared their first hurdle.

38.   That was only his first hurdle.

39.   That reminded her of a recent trip to Florida, and the first conversational hurdle was cleared.

40.   The clearing of this first hurdle, however, hardly insured that the legislation would be enacted.