51.   On a long row of tables, there were handouts ranging from maps and pamphlets with basic facts on population to piles of CD-ROMs.

52.   One was a confident master of detail, the other a defensive witness who could not recall basic facts about his fund-raising activities.

53.   Only gradually do they reveal basic biographical facts about their lives.

54.   Public opinion polls demonstrate appalling public ignorance about basic economic facts.

55.   President Clinton recognizes this basic fact when he stresses that what is preventing an agreement is not numbers of dollars but policy issues.

56.   Republicans are hoping the White House can stipulate some basic facts, such as authenticating phone records and logs.

57.   Rothwax and Imus agree on the basic facts.

58.   That basic fact seems simple enough, but discussions of the subject involve a maze of technical mumbo-jumbo, environmental jargon and clumsy acronyms.

59.   Students at level one and below have little or no grasp of the most basic facts.

60.   That line of thinking, however, skips a few basic facts that should make a difference.