31.   It was just the latest in a recent series of so-called serious, positive films about the black experience that have failed at the box office.

32.   Levi has suffered from a recent series of missteps in an attempt to update its image.

33.   Mordechai is the latest of a recent series of prominent Likud defectors.

34.   Point was made in a recent Globe series.

35.   Q. How do you think companies will respond to public outrage over the recent series of accounting scandals?

36.   Still, a drop in the rupiah would offset any positive effect from the recent series of rate cuts in SBI government paper, a type of government bill.

37.   Stokes still despairs, particularly after reading a recent series in The Kansas City Star about housing discrimination in this area.

38.   The attack was the latest in a recent series of suicide bomb blasts that have killed scores of Israeli civilians.

39.   The change of course has been prompted by a recent series of scandals over unethical ties between chain pharmacies, doctors and hospital staff.

40.   The convicted bomber explained in a recent series of letters to his hometown newspaper, the Buffalo News, that he wanted to be cremated.