41.   And growth is even more vigorous in the Pacific Northwest, Arizona and Nevada, making it harder for California to import the power on which it has relied.

42.   And it will make it harder for the United States to discourage other countries from recovering plutonium and reusing it in reactors or elsewhere, Clements said.

43.   And four years ago, Bush signed a private-property-rights bill to make it harder for state agencies to impose regulations that reduce property values.

44.   And how new laws and court decisions make it harder to sue in cases of limited liability.

45.   And that only makes life harder for Douglas.

46.   And that will make it harder.

47.   And that makes it harder for Nasdaq, the second-largest stock market in the U.S., to maintain its spectacular growth rate of the past decade.

48.   And that makes it harder.

49.   And that practice has made it harder to judge a draft class before the players actually hit an NBA floor.

50.   And the basketball nets have been cut off the rims to make it harder for inmates to get up onto the backboards.