31.   His support was so robust that Primakov, once seen as a formidable opponent for the presidency, quit the race.

32.   In quitting the race, however, Forbes leaves lessons both personal and systemic.

33.   In the actual caucuses, he finished a dismal fifth and quit the race two days later.

34.   Included is Orrin Hatch, who formally quit the race today.

35.   Influential blacks from around the country advised him to quit the race and leave the seat to the man many of them viewed as its rightful heir.

36.   Like municipal candidates in small towns across Colombia, Martinez and Salazar had been threatened with death or kidnapping unless they quit their races.

37.   No immediate endorsement is expected from Forbes, who becomes the seventh GOP contender to quit the race.

38.   Robbins says that a Hollywood mogul called them a week before the election, asking that Robbins and Sarandon call Nader and ask him to quit the race.

39.   Rumors ran rampant that she was about to quit the race.

40.   Seventeen riders quit the race in the Pyrenees, some out of exhaustion, some because of crashes on foggy and slippery roads.