41.   Both contests were stinkers, although Boston won one.

42.   Both Bradley and Gore insist the contest is not over.

43.   Boehner is reported to have a slight advantage but the contest is too close to call.

44.   A contest is often a protracted lawsuit, with a full trial, including experts and other witnesses, that can take months to resolve.

45.   A former chairman of the party, Cecil Parkinson, said he hoped there was no contest.

46.   A few contests are so close that the outcome will be determined by counting last-minute absentee ballots.

47.   A real contest is rare.

48.   A new contest should be about current differences, not about the past.

49.   A proxy contest is one way that Kaiser could try to take control of Norcross, Georgia-based Alumax.

50.   A spokesman for a prominent Muslim-American organization also stressed that no contest was too small when it came to shaping public opinion about the Middle East.