31.   Again and again, residents described the drug policy as a common-sense solution to help children resist drugs.

32.   Agricultural groups suggested that some foreign countries may cite U.S. sanctions policy as a reason they should be allowed to retain their own market barriers to agricultural trade.

33.   Burton, the Fish and Wildlife spokesman, defended the administration policy as a prudent, cost-effective compromise.

34.   But attorneys often see good privacy policies as a way to limit exposure to lawsuits.

35.   But Harris County Attorney Michael Fleming, appearing before the high court, defended the policy as a valid way to keep employment costs down.

36.   But Runzheimer said individual businesses could offset expected increases by such policies as trading down to compact or economy cars, or to economy hotels from full-service ones.

37.   But Morgan executives defend their go-it-alone policy as the only logical course.

38.   But the Bundesbank has remained wedded to these policies as protection against inflation, the great bugaboo of German financial history.

39.   But political considerations and Russian pride have as much to do with the policy as money, analysts said.

40.   But Stripling, as well as other school officials, also defend the policy as one that is putting rigor into academics.