31.   The company sold Macs to top universities at a steep discount, and students became Apple Computer enthusiasts.

32.   The dean, Roger Abrams, said that he handled the process properly and that it was top university officials who dragged their feet.

33.   The figures are much lower at other top universities.

34.   The other children are scattered about the globe, most of them with law or business degrees from top universities.

35.   The Qatar Foundation is continuing to talk to other top universities about setting up programs in business, engineering and information technology, although it will not name them.

36.   They demanded to speak with top university officials.

37.   Top universities have stepped up their longtime efforts to lure good people from lesser schools, while upwardly mobile, lesser schools have joined the fray.

38.   We will try to verify an email exchange from a top university official that states the above.

39.   While definitions of recession vary, the research committee, made up of academic economists from Harvard, Stanford and other top universities, is considered the leading authority.

40.   A Chinese intellectual who has taught at top U.S. universities has been detained on suspicion of divulging state secrets, a human rights group said Monday.