31.   Over the past decade or so, the nation has gone through a period of revolutionary change.

32.   Other nations would go further and abolish the veto, which all permanent members of the Council solidly oppose.

33.   Political leaders prefer to raise issues and then cast the election as an opportunity for voters to decide which direction the nation should go on weighty matters.

34.   President Clinton has stressed his keen wish that the nations go back to the bargaining table as soon as the hostilities are over.

35.   Rather, Dole said, the standoff concerns when the nation will go about making tough financial decisions.

36.   Right now the nation is going through a lovefest of bipartisanship.

37.   Right now, polls suggest that most Americans believe the nation is going in the right direction.

38.   Still, it credibly re-creates a day in which the entire nation sort of went crazy.

39.   The infant nations went to war.

40.   The nation is going through a tough time.