31.   Clinton also won concessions from the GOP on his showcase proposal to grant tax breaks on college tuition.

32.   Critics of the proposed shutdown have charged that it was grandstanding brinkmanship deliberately designed to win aid concessions.

33.   Dear said he also won some concessions on the timing of the planned medallion sales.

34.   Earlier this month, Opel won similar concessions from the union.

35.   Giuliani has won some concessions from the unions, including a two-year wage freeze and permission to reduce the city contribution to the municipal pension funds.

36.   Going into a decisive cabinet meeting in March, Pettit believed he had won the concession.

37.   He has repeatedly threatened to resign in order to win concessions on political issues.

38.   He said he had won concessions on anti-ballistic missile defenses.

39.   He took a hard line in a news conference on Friday, blaming Arafat for deliberately provoking the violence to win concessions in the peace process.

40.   He told his listeners he had scaled back some of the more dangerous aspects of NATO expansion and won important concessions on strategic nuclear weapons agreements and economic issues.