41.   On the previous Friday, a similar warning from Coca-Cola Co. helped drag down stock prices.

42.   Other embassies have issued similar warnings.

43.   Other forest-products companies, including International Paper, Mead, Temple-Inland and Boise Cascade, have issued similar warnings.

44.   Other institutions have issued similar warnings.

45.   Perez said he had received similar warnings before, but this time it would be different.

46.   Policy makers and legislators have heard, and ignored, similar warnings before.

47.   Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich., issued a similar warning last month in a letter he sent President Clinton.

48.   Several technology companies issued financial warnings similar to those that have touched off many recent market falls.

49.   Sgt. George Hoopes offered similar warnings, Perez said.

50.   Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., who is about as liberal as Coverdell is conservative, issued a similar warning against rhetorical grandstanding on the Senate floor.