41.   He was physically fit and prepared to go after a record eighth championship, which would break a tie with Richard Petty.

42.   He scored points with farmers by mentioning that as vice president he broke a tie in the Senate to preserve ethanol subsidies.

43.   His music now broke all ties with the past and leapt into the free fall of atonality.

44.   If George W. Bush wins the presidency, Vice President Dick Cheney will break ties in the Senate.

45.   If the committee deadlocked, one of the executives who had dismissed her would break the tie.

46.   If they disagree, a third member must break the tie.

47.   If penetrations were tied, then total first downs were used to break the tie.

48.   If President Clinton is re-elected, that would give the Democrats control, since Vice President Al Gore could vote to break any tie.

49.   In his constitutional role as president of the Senate, Cheney could be called upon to break ties in a chamber divided evenly between Republicans and Democrats.

50.   In his three years as vice president, Gore has been called on to break Senate ties only three times.