41.   But that can happen only when grown-ups start acting like grown-ups and quit sending mixed messages.

42.   But that often comes across as a mixed message.

43.   But the Clinton administration is sending mixed messages.

44.   But the Democratic governor may be sending Californians a mixed message.

45.   But the numbers give mixed messages.

46.   But the ideal of a neo-Baroque, Catholic, Austrian-South German cosmopolitanism sent a mixed message.

47.   But the Group of Four, as well as INC officials, complain that their efforts are hamstrung by mixed messages from the US.

48.   But some Middle East observers saw the Arab offer as a mixed message, encouraging the Palestinians to keep fighting.

49.   But there again, Koenigsberg says, people run into mixed messages.

50.   But time after time, politicians -- in Washington and around the world -- have shown a surprising tendency to send mixed messages on terrorism.