31.   Pickett has always been one for making provocative assertions, and this constellation of composers will allow him to test one of them.

32.   Products that contain kava often make similar assertions, but they had not previously prompted health concerns.

33.   Spargo said that the Vacco campaign had not begun to examine those books until late Tuesday afternoon, a day after he made his assertions before Justice Thomas Keegan.

34.   Tabb said competitors made the assertions.

35.   The assertion was made that if only the FBI had some form of warning, it might have been able to take preventive action.

36.   The assertion was first made four years ago in The American Spectator, a conservative magazine.

37.   The big insurance company, Swiss Re, made its assertions on Tuesday in a statement about the insurance payout on the trade center.

38.   The company, Enforma Natural Products of Encino, Calif., made those assertions on the Internet and in televised commercials.

39.   The governor made this assertion in turning down an AJC request to see his e-mails, memos and other documents concerning his state budget proposal.

40.   The legislators, all Democrats, made the assertions in separate interviews on Sunday and in a letter to Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic candidate for president.