31.   Aides to both senators said that they are confident that the bill will pass by a wide margin if voted on in the Senate.

32.   All eight challengers lost, and the Democrats retained their wide margin in the Assembly.

33.   Both shareholder groups approved the merger by a wide margin.

34.   Bryant GEORGIA -- FEC. Rep. Charlie Norwood cranked up his reelection campaign another notch last month, outspending Democratic challenger David Bell by a wide margin.

35.   Bucking perceptions, Fidelity managers are outdistancing their Putnam rivals at a number of funds, some by wide margins.

36.   Buoyed by insatiable demand for new issues, Sequoia has beaten its targeted returns by a wide margin.

37.   Bush attributed his wide margin of victory to his political philosophy.

38.   Bush voters, by wide margins, said they did not approve of how the Gore campaign has handled things.

39.   Business leaders hailed the surprisingly wide margin of the vote and predicted speedy passage of the overall bill, perhaps as early as Thursday.

40.   But a string of newspapers, opinion pollsters and other commentators said on Wednesday that Fox had won the debate by a wide margin.