41.   On the Democratic side, the delegate race has barely begun.

42.   One Clinton adviser confided to another Tuesday that the race was beginning to feel like a dinner party that had gone on an hour too long.

43.   Qualifying races begin Thursday and the final race is Sunday.

44.   Since this race began, every national poll has shown women favoring Gore by large numbers, just as men favor Bush.

45.   So far, Bush is outpacing Gore on all three fronts, but the race has just begun.

46.   So, Nader now asserts, if the race begins to seem like a runaway, many liberals and independent voters will feel freer to vote for him.

47.   Soon a race began between companies such as car manufacturers and sneaker makers to be the first on the World Wide Web.

48.   Still, as the race began to wind down, it became apparent that Dale Jarrett had the dominant car.

49.   Still the race has just begun.

50.   The competition is to be shown on ESPN for viewers in North America beginning in October, when the cup trial races begin off Auckland, New Zealand.