31.   Jack Farr, the superintendent of schools, said the board proposed the idea only after considering other options.

32.   Most Sydney residents laughed when the idea was proposed.

33.   No one, for fairly obvious reasons, ever thought of the process as recycling until two years ago, when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani proposed the idea.

34.   One day, his agent-manager called from West Germany and proposed the idea of marrying scat-singing with electronic disco-rap.

35.   Pataki may have had political reasons for proposing this idea.

36.   Republicans proposed the idea last year.

37.   Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del., plans to propose the idea to Congress when it reconvenes in September.

38.   Several other ideas have been proposed for the electronic transfer of money over computer networks, using a variety of credit card technologies.

39.   Simply advocating it, he believes, will energize the search for a diplomatic solution by forcing his critics to propose ideas of their own.

40.   Soldatov proposed his idea for Agentura, and his father gave the go-ahead.