31.   In successive years he has been budget balancer and health care fixer, political penitent and moral preacher, master of the classroom and savior of Social Security.

32.   Jardine Matheson is expected to report its second successive year of falling profits tomorrow because of a slump in local retail and trading markets.

33.   Kiss is the latest of only five athletes to win an NCAA championship in four successive years.

34.   Runaway budget deficits have succumbed to three successive years of absolute balance.

35.   Scientists could detect population shifts among these boreal forest birds by studying tapes of their nocturnal flight calls recorded over several successive years, Evans suggested.

36.   She thereby won a position in the final four a second successive year.

37.   The increase would follow two successive years of budget cuts for the State Department program.

38.   The owners want to eliminate the option year in the agreement that the rejected deal stipulated would be a second successive year free of the luxury tax on payrolls.

39.   The study followed an FBI report last month that said major crime generally had declined for six successive years.

40.   They contain a combination of three herbicides, and have to be applied spring and fall for at least two successive years to work.