41.   As we look ahead into the new year, my plea is that Americans will remember the mistakes of our recent past and not repeat them.

42.   Based on the triumph of his early years and the seaminess of his more recent past, he will always be a celebrity.

43.   Because of the recent past, Katia says she has learned not to think about the too distant future.

44.   Besides the interest rate picture, he said, people are looking back at the recent past in disbelief.

45.   Books are a part of his recent past, and books will be a part of his future.

46.   Boston-area museums have, in the recent past, exhibited private collections of everything from African sculpture to Renaissance bronzes and Irish painting.

47.   Both brothers agree, however, that making movies about the recent past is a gas.

48.   -- Incumbency will be more prevalent next year than in the recent past.

49.   A fountain would paper over the recent bloody past, he felt.

50.   A new report suggested that as in te recent past a substantial fraction is going into stocks.