51.   If you just based it on private workouts, Kansas swingman Paul Pierce might have been the best player the Clippers saw in the past few weeks.

52.   If the Republicans had based their crusade for missile defense on the Rumsfeld report alone, however, they might still be fighting an uphill battle.

53.   In other words, he has nothing on which to base an effective marketing campaign.

54.   In other words, Zimmer had nothing on which to base an attempt at informed speculation about a possible Red Sox comeback.

55.   Indeed, insurance companies that were asked for the death and injury statistics on which they based their decisions could not -- or would not -- provide them.

56.   In turning down the case, the court said Byrd and his colleagues had no legal standing on which to base their challenge.

57.   It is based loosely on knowledge and experience, but it has nothing to do with science.

58.   It took its stylistic model directly from PC culture, basing itself on the now dominant elements of the window and the icon.

59.   It was based on on supplying inexpensive wine to an immigrant population that had never concerned itself with fine wines in Europe.

60.   Legislators would have to rely heavily on the advice of unelected staff or self-serving lobbyists because they would have little experience of their own on which to base judgments.