41.   That statement came after Air Line Pilots Associationleaders said the union was optimistic about a tentative agreement before the end of the cooling-off period.

42.   That statement came before she was considering the run for the Senate in New York.

43.   That statement came as no surprise to Game Dude owner Herb Davis, whose North Hollywood store trades in new and used video and computer games.

44.   The Allied Colloids statement came after Hercules Inc. said it raised its hostile takeover offer for the U.K. chemical company.

45.   The charismatic statement is apparently coming because of a congregation in Macon.

46.   The best statement of this came nearly a decade ago from Senator Edward Kennedy, whose life had been full of publicized turmoil.

47.   The hastily arranged statement came even as the House Judiciary Committee was voting to approve the first article seeking his removal from office.

48.   The Japanese statement came in a meeting with the visiting South Korean president, Kim Dae-jung.

49.   The latest statement comes four days after the IRA seemed ready to make concessions on the issue of disarmament.

50.   The most poignant statement came not from the marshals, however, but from the widow of Degan.