51.   But Arnett did not take the decision as a victory.

52.   But Campbell cites an NCAA basketball decision as precedent for seamless game records in football.

53.   But Cindy Abel, executive director of a local lesbian and gay organization, Stonewall Cincinnati, saw the decision as anything but a victory for democracy.

54.   But critics quickly assailed the decision as politically motivated, coming as it does just a month and a half before voters will be going to the polls.

55.   But even some government officials described the decision as absurd.

56.   But Ghuzlan sees the decision as political, part of a plan by the settlers and the government to push Arabs out of East Jerusalem.

57.   But he defended the decisions as necessary to properly implement the law.

58.   But Israeli peace advocates denounced his decision as a deliberate attempt to sabotage efforts to restart dialogue with the Palestinians.

59.   But it is remarkably difficult to find people in that group who see the decision as a choice between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush.

60.   But it was clear, as the chief justice said Wednesday, that the court had come to see the decision as dangerously open-ended.