41.   But he seemed surprisingly ill-prepared, woefully uninformed about foreign policy and confused on several domestic issues.

42.   But he was also seeking to frame what his advisers expect to be one of two dominant domestic issues, together with tobacco legislation, before the November elections.

43.   But in Israel the Orthodox, by tradition and by politics, regulate marriage, adoption, divorce and other domestic issues that Western democracies relegate to the state.

44.   But other polls show that voters are not as concerned about national security these days as they are about domestic social issues.

45.   But some believe there is a stronger basis to suspect a group motivated by domestic issues.

46.   But on the most sensitive and entrenched domestic issues, the direction of his policies is not so clear.

47.   But others argue that it may be better to have domestic issues the focus of presidential campaigns because a focus on foreign policy can result in questionable policies.

48.   But the paramount domestic issue in Russia is the ailing economy, not Kosovo.

49.   But the next treasury secretary faces formidable problems, and the confirmation hearings Wednesday only scratched the surface, with the senators largely concentrating on domestic issues.

50.   But there were major domestic issues as well.