31.   This relationship remains a literary work in progress.

32.   This mutability diverts attention from the fact that the underlying economic power relationships remain the same.

33.   Wednesday Hingis acknowledged their relationship remained chilly.

34.   Yet, in spite of this, the relationship remains strong.

35.   But Berezovsky denied that such a discussion ever took place, and his appointment suggests the relationship remains intact.

36.   But the relationship remains uneasy behind a calm surface.

37.   But their relationship remains strong, he said, and they spoke for two hours Saturday.

38.   Experts also point to differences over Chechnya, Iraq or Russian arms sales to the likes of Iran or Syria as showing how fragile the relationship remains.

39.   Even so, the U.S.-Japan security relationship remains one of the closest in the world.

40.   From the beginning, President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky hoped and expected that their relationship would remain secret.