41.   Funding for the arts in this city is behind what comparable cities around the country are getting.

42.   He prefers to spend his time in the theater and talks enthusiastically about taking musicals to smaller cities around the country.

43.   He was only the latest to join a chorus of self-congratulation heard from cities around the country.

44.   Hevesi was attempting to encourage the faithful, but for the hapless voters in one-party cities around the nation, it sounded more like a threat.

45.   In certain cities around the world, pollution levels have been at their worst in the past four years, Demerjian said.

46.   In Denver and other cities around the country, school superintendents have banned the wearing of black trench coats to school.

47.   In the standardization of its parts, and its replication in cities around the world, the Seagram Building is as pop as a Coke bottle.

48.   In the city around her, frightened office workers and shoppers raced into the streets.

49.   Inter-faith organizations in cities around the country regularly host dialogues for Christians, Jews and Muslims.

50.   In Washington and cities around the nation, both sides have retained battalions of advocates.