31.   The immediate solution lies in preserving land, but the underlying issue is about protecting a disappearing way of life.

32.   The tawdriness that has surrounded the personal side of this presidency sometimes makes it difficult to focus on the important underlying issues.

33.   Then he talks about how to raise test scores, not how to address the underlying issues responsible for them.

34.   This is the paradox and the underlying issue that faces Judge Downes when he rules on the challenge to the Park Service.

35.   Though the underlying issues are serious, the final stages in the debate came to resemble a parody of Washington at work.

36.   To many, the underlying issue is whether the airport will remain local or become a true regional facility.

37.   Whatever the impact of the strike on future interest, those who still consider themselves fans have strong, if sometimes slightly contradictory, opinions on the underlying issues.

38.   While the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects has taken no position, the underlying issue vexes the profession.

39.   An underlying issue at the Fourth International Energy Conference is low prices allowed by high production in places like Norway, Venezuela, Mexico and Nigeria.

40.   Bush argues the recounts are unconstitutional, but the appeals court did not rule on that underlying issue.