31.   The lockout gave labor-cost certainty to the owners, and guaranteed lifetime security to players.

32.   The only force capable of getting this job done is NATO, the powerful military alliance of democracies that has guaranteed our security for a half century now.

33.   The success of such an offering could depend on how explicitly the government guarantees the securities against default.

34.   The tentative contract that the teachers rebuffed earlier this month would have frozen wages for two years but guaranteed job security for three.

35.   The tournament was called off, then restarted last week by CONMEBOL, the South American federation, which is guaranteeing adequate security.

36.   They say they want international peacekeepers to guarantee the security of the overwhelmingly Albanian population of the buffer zone, who have complained of harassment by the Serbian police.

37.   U.N. workers could not return to West Timor, the council said, until the Indonesian government credibly guaranteed their security.

38.   Washington has long helped guarantee Saudi security.

39.   What they did not achieve is a proposal that would guarantee essential security for the impoverished.

40.   What they mean is that while they cannot guarantee job security, they can provide knowledge and tools for their laid-off workers to find jobs elsewhere.