31.   But on a recent morning, he hardly looks like an executive at the pinnacle of the corporate world.

32.   But on a recent morning, the trading center was nearly empty.

33.   But on a recent sunny morning at the Americana at Manhasset, an upscale shopping strip on Northern Boulevard, the new prosperity seems almost taken for granted.

34.   But the crowd this recent January morning was actually nothing special.

35.   But the software analyst with Northern Telecom Ltd. in Brampton, Ontario, was baffled one recent morning when two new Apple Macintoshes in his department failed to start.

36.   Certainly the half-dozen men waiting here on a recent morning were pacing and proud, sure that their oil would be the best.

37.   Certainly not Jamie Marshall, who was taking a nap in his feed truck one recent December morning.

38.   Children sledded down snowy slopes of Lincoln Park on a recent morning as Welch pointed out in the far distance a speck of a house off Delaware Avenue.

39.   Consider the recent snowy morning when Bass was battling the elements and recovering.

40.   Courteous and talkative, he seemed most concerned one recent morning with explaining the history of the bridge.