41.   A spokesman for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said no decision would be taken before Friday, when the report will be submitted to the government.

42.   A spokesman for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin said no decision would be taken before Friday.

43.   A San Francisco Examiner poll taken just before the primary showed the two veteran politicians in a statistical dead heat.

44.   A wide-angle picture taken minutes before the attack showed the uncle with a bucket for collecting shells, Norman said, with no fishing tackle in sight.

45.   According to a series of recent polls taken before the convention, Gore was behind in every Southern state except his native Tennessee.

46.   After all, an oath taken before the altar in what had become a Christian as well as a pagan shrine could hardly be disbelieved.

47.   After being arrested on Monday, Arizmendi was taken before a judge in Queretaro, where he was charged in the kidnapping and slaying of Nieto del Rio.

48.   Al-Hazmi was not taken before a federal magistrate in San Antonio before being spirited to New York for questioning, sources said.

49.   But a few polls taken before the party conventions suggested that Bush had a chance of victory in both states.

50.   But another draft hopeful will be taken long before Dixon.