41.   And Gov. George Pataki said the Assembly Democrats were using the constitutional issue as an excuse.

42.   And he promises that he will not even consider such final status issues as Jerusalem and refugees.

43.   And in the Senate, Democrats have forced a symbolic vote on the issue as an amendment to a budget resolution.

44.   And he knows that even if Labor wins big, Blair will still want the backing of Liberal Democrats on such thorny issues as a single European currency.

45.   And the religious right is making ideological demands that moderates cannot accept, forcing party leaders to espouse strangely schizophrenic policies on such issues as abortion.

46.   And the administration has delivered on such issues as family leave, a rise in the minimum wage, education reforms and tax credits for low-income working families.

47.   And their leaders have targeted Forbes for being suspect on such issues as abortion and gays in the military.

48.   And, as recently as last year, she and Ms. Messinger had worked together on such educational issues as a plan to reorganize the Board of Education.

49.   As a law student at Yale and then as a judicial clerk, legal practitioner and law school professor, Swire formulated the issue as a series of questions.

50.   As a presidential contender, Ashcroft focused on such conservative issues as abortion, flag desecration and prohibiting federal testing of schoolchildren.