41.   After the Gulf War victory, Powell could have gone on to become a viable presidential contender, but instead chose to serve the new commander-in-chief as chief diplomat.

42.   All the major television networks have agreed to air the three events run by the commission, as well as one it proposed for the two vice presidential contenders.

43.   Both presidential contenders have given Russia some hope that a compromise can be reached.

44.   Buchanan and Dornan were the only Republican presidential contenders who attended the rally.

45.   Buchanan is an ideologue with a tiny but noisy following, not a serious presidential contender.

46.   Bush was the last of the potential Republican presidential contenders to weigh in on the Kosovo crisis this week.

47.   Bush has had ten debates against GOP presidential contenders, but always with at least two other candidates present.

48.   But Clinton said he thought Gore had delivered the better speech of the two presidential contenders and would make the better president.

49.   But California and Texas are growing much faster than New York, whose only possible presidential contender in recent decades was the brilliant, Hamlet-like Mario Cuomo.

50.   But Bush is the only Republican in a crowded field of presidential contenders who is inspiring so many unauthorized biographies.