31.   AFC officials met with Kuwati soccer officials Friday in a new effort to make the tiny nation change its stand.

32.   All tiny nations sandwiched between much larger ones, the three Baltic states and Chechnya have been stomping grounds for foreign invaders.

33.   Andrade, a hurdler, will be the first Olympian to represent the tiny African nation of Cape Verde.

34.   At the time, the tiny Balkan nation was almost solely dependant on foreign aid for food supplies.

35.   At the time, the tiny Balkan nation was almost solely dependent on foreign aid for food supplies.

36.   Bananas are the major export crop for the four tiny Caribbean nations of St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica and Grenada.

37.   Bowing to pressure from the international community, the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has passed a law aimed at preventing criminal gangs laundering money through its offshore banks.

38.   Bush chose Denis Coleman as his first ambassador to the tiny European nation, but Coleman has been chosen for another federal post, a spokeswoman said.

39.   But he noted that the tiny nation had little choice but to keep the peace effort moving.

40.   But officials have given no clear sign when a mission would move into the tiny Balkan nation.