31.   Priscu is leading another study this summer, so the picture should become clearer in the next year or so.

32.   Since Christmas, the picture had become a little more clear.

33.   That picture will become bleaker, demographers say, as the population ages and the number of seniors doubles over two decades.

34.   Take out Eisenhower, who as supreme allied commander in Europe had learned a little something about political leadership, and the performance picture becomes clearer.

35.   That could be in part because the picture has become more complicated since Roe vs. Wade.

36.   The earnings picture became more muddled after the market closed when Microsoft said that it would post lower-than-expected earnings.

37.   The gun picture becomes even murkier when Diaz looks at the large foreign gun importers.

38.   The harder you look at the man known as Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the blurrier the picture becomes.

39.   The individual pictures become elements in a larger, mosaic-like composition.

40.   The liquidity picture could become even worse if individual investors abandon the market in a steep downturn.