41.   For his part, Mortensen said he had especially liked the time he spent as a cowboy in Denmark.

42.   Fresh from a summer spent as an apprentice at the Greenbush Summer Theater in Nyack, N.Y., she had hopes of a career in theater.

43.   Further exacerbating the situation, Hunt predicts, will be a slowdown in capital spending as waning consumption and price competition puts profits under pressure.

44.   George W. Bush has promised to spend as much of the federal budget to promote sexual abstinence as is spent promoting contraceptives.

45.   Frost, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, spent as much time fighting for his own seat as he did fighting for Democrats across the country.

46.   Gingrich said that the president was unfairly characterizing a proposed cut in the rate of growth of spending as a cut in spending.

47.   Gennady Zyuganov, the Communist candidate, lost his bid to become president and is probably spent as a national political force in Russia.

48.   Half of American households invest in stocks, so consumers may feel less like spending as the market continues to sink.

49.   Hallmark likes to point to the amount American Greetings spends as proof that its cards cannot compete on merit alone.

50.   Hartford ranked last, despite spending as much or more per pupil as most of its suburbs.