31.   Like companies in all Korean industries, their finances are being pinched as the slowest economic growth in four years follows years of willy-nilly expansion.

32.   More important, the move follows several years of debt-paring by the company and could set the stage for more acquisitions.

33.   Next September, the United Nations will convene a special General Assembly session on children, following a year of preparatory conferences.

34.   Negotiations for the agreement were secret, without U.S. participation, and followed years of riots in the Palestinian Intifada uprising.

35.   Negro Leagues Baseball was born in Kansas City, following years of de facto segregated baseball that began after the Civil War.

36.   Robust years are inevitably followed by down cycles in the airline industry.

37.   She was obsessed with luxuries and fought increasingly with her husband as his electronics business hit a slowdown following years of prosperity.

38.   That follows a couple years of speculation that the company would be sold to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. or New World Communications Group Inc.

39.   That situation follows several years of roller-coaster emotions among researchers, and among women who felt they were at high risk for breast cancer.

40.   The brothers claimed they killed their parents following years of abuse.