31.   Public celebrations are concentrated on the first weekend in June, when the nation will take a four-day holiday and hold street parties and carnival events.

32.   Repeating a theme expressed by Giuliani, several speakers said there was a difference between the attacks against Israel and any retaliation the nation might take against Palestinians.

33.   Saturday, when K-State plays Nebraska at K-State Stadium, the whole nation could take notice of the Wildcats and May.

34.   Sakakibara said Sunday the International Monetary Fund and major industrialized nations will take steps this week to help Indonesia.

35.   Seventy-two percent say the nation should take action, even if thousands of our soldiers are killed.

36.   Still, African officials and some economists said the rich nations are at least taking some steps to provide access to their markets.

37.   That was the height of the second reconstruction period, in which the nation took up the failed agenda of the first.

38.   The blizzard of legislation adds up to a broad agenda, Babbitt argued yesterday, and one of which the nation must take note.

39.   The NBA players took a step back from the brave new world of sports Tuesday, and the nation took remarkably little notice.

40.   The nation has already taken strong doses of monetary and fiscal medicine, and the benefits have been debatable at best.