51.   Sony has cleverly sold the robot as a sort of Cabbage Patch doll, with a madeup family background and imaginary human traits.

52.   Stable and happy marriages, he believes, are more likely to result when family backgrounds are carefully researched.

53.   Some Tolman backers, particularly from labor, have said they wished he was running for governor, noting his strong labor record and working-class family background.

54.   Subjective criteria such as family background and written essays will stand alongside the Scholastic Aptitude Test and class ranking in the spectrum of qualifications.

55.   Symington used his family background and Harvard education to seduce the lenders on his real-estate developments, Schindler said.

56.   Teachers also must have the training to deal with children of different academic abilities, different cultures and different family backgrounds.

57.   The book tries to determine whether IQ or family background is a better predictor of success.

58.   The guidelines recommend the use of a premarital inventory, sets of questions touching subjects as diverse as family backgrounds, daily habits and sexual expectations.

59.   The prince is proud of his family background but proud, too, of his winemaking heritage at Pommery.