31.   Bug Net chronicles the faults of scores of popular programs in its regular bulletins and provides fixes and links to downloadable updates.

32.   But few of them worry much about it, and most people would rather have the government spend money on popular programs than cut taxes.

33.   But President Clinton, citing Medicare and a host of other popular programs sharply curtailed by the GOP bill, stood his ground.

34.   But popular programs -- or, local hand-wringing to the contrary, big-city stations -- are not the most vulnerable to his threat.

35.   But scaling back their legislative ambitions also puts pressure on Clinton to enact the individual tax breaks or justify vetoing popular programs.

36.   But the poll spells danger for both major parties in trying to rein in the popular Medicare program, which pays health care costs of elders and disabled individuals.

37.   But the space problem is not limited to popular programs.

38.   But unlike other popular programs, RealJukebox routes the information through its own servers and tags it with the GUID, which uniquely identifies the user.

39.   By last year, Pataki was raising spending on popular programs, and he was widely seen as unassailable.

40.   By focusing on the looming problems, administration officials seemed eager to head off pressure to spend more of the windfall on politically popular programs.