31.   Lloyd Bentsen, the former Texas senator, is in the even more uncomfortable position of hearing the assertion.

32.   Niman Ranch staffers occasionally find themselves in the uncomfortable position of policing restaurants whose menus falsely claim to serve their meat.

33.   Now, like Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties before it, Seminole County finds itself in the uncomfortable position of possibly determining the presidency.

34.   On Tuesday, the Fed considered a wide range of factors in its uncomfortable position as central bank to the world and as linchpin of the stock market.

35.   Parents like Ms. Wright said they often found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to teach their children that what their teachers were doing was not right.

36.   So poorly has the issue been handled that the Church now finds itself in the uncomfortable position of having all its pronouncements on the subject routinely disbelieved.

37.   Still, sources said some board members were furious with Silber for forcing them into an uncomfortable position and then leaving them to defend it alone.

38.   That instinctive reaction to stand by the men in blue and gold leaves the governor in an uncomfortable position.

39.   That could leave the American public in an uncomfortable position.

40.   That could put Bush in a politically uncomfortable position.