41.   The panel members recorded their positive and negative reactions simply by moving the right and left arrows on their remote-control devices.

42.   The public reaction by members of Congress and Bill Clinton, an antismoking president who nonetheless sometimes chomps on a cigar himself, was cautious.

43.   The reaction by investors to the election, Fernance said, will come in two stages.

44.   The reaction by the two houses has been similar to the squirming of two women who show up at a party wearing the same dress.

45.   The reaction by winemakers was immediate.

46.   The reaction by investors was more rapid.

47.   The reaction by large investors to the Compaq-Hewlett Packard proposed merger will make boards more cautious about proposing similar transactions.

48.   The reaction by Stony Point shows the danger of continuing any further down this road.

49.   The reaction by the Vatican to the current uproar suggests the hierarchy sees a particularly American hue to this scandal.

50.   The physicist Enrico Fermi suspected that a substance produced by nuclear fission was halting the reaction by capturing most of the neutrons.