41.   The drop happened despite a new federal law and a recent series of decisions by the Supreme Court curtailing appeals by death row inmates.

42.   The doctor was unhappy with a recent series we published on how some physicians make a lot of money off of Medicare.

43.   The company has also been plagued by a recent series of internal crises.

44.   The Dinkins administration vastly overstated the success of its minority contracting program, a recent series of articles in The Times has revealed.

45.   The disappointing results led Malone to a recent series of strategic shifts.

46.   The more successful the party becomes, the more these fault lines will be exposed, as they were in a recent series of outbursts.

47.   The recent Braves series was a disaster for Cincinnati.

48.   The satellite was to have been launched last November, but the flight was delayed because of a recent series of rocket failures that grounded the Titan launcher fleet.

49.   The police said after a recent series of arrests that most of the people involved had been in trouble before.

50.   The recent series seem to play on a variation of a theme used in earlier shows.