41.   Many club owners applaud this measure, saying that nightspots need to maintain good relations with residential neighbors.

42.   Most governmental efforts are concentrated on the mechanics of maintaining trade relations.

43.   Most favored status is an anachronistic misnomer, because all it means is that normal trade relations will be maintained with the nation granted such recognition.

44.   Most officials declined to offer any criticism of Williams on the record, citing the importance of maintaining good relations with the Police Department.

45.   Ms. Baird said she had maintained excellent relations with Clinton and his administration.

46.   Pakistan maintains relations, but is currently siding with the West in its efforts to have bin Laden brought to justice.

47.   Pepsico, which is headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., has maintained warm relations with Pataki since he was a state legislator representing Westchester County.

48.   Pakistan is now the only country that maintains relations with the Taliban.

49.   Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, a former foreign minister and senior intelligence official, has maintained close relations with Baghdad since Soviet days.

50.   Reese and others said that McCarrick also maintains good relations with the Vatican, not dissenting from its positions.