31.   Closed-end mutual funds differ from open-end funds in that there are a fixed number of shares that are priced according to supply and demand.

32.   Dyson, however, says this argument applies only to so-called digital life, in which there is a fixed number of quantum states.

33.   First, each eligible policyholder would receive a fixed number of shares.

34.   In these programs, employees receive a fixed number of days off a year, to be used whenever they choose and for whatever reasons they choose.

35.   Investment trusts are closed-end funds with a fixed number of shares, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

36.   Investment trusts are closed-end funds, with a fixed number of shares traded on the London Stock Exchange.

37.   Of all the promises candidates make, none is easier to keep than a promise to leave office after a fixed number of years.

38.   People are born with a fixed number of heart-muscle cells and the heart grows by enlargement of these cells, not by growing more.

39.   Richard Jordan said this week that there is no fixed number, and that positions would be taken by attrition, not layoff.

40.   Sometime this fall, Congress and President Clinton may agree to balance the budget within a fixed number of years.