51.   All but three players had no more than a one-year guarantee from the team.

52.   Boone knows he has five more months to keep the plates spinning.

53.   Burnett, who has two more years of school, would like to win a residency when he is finished.

54.   Brianne Stepherson still has two more seasons of Tuesday and Friday nights in gyms in Amesbury and Rockport.

55.   Bulldogs coach Mark Richt may not name a starter for at least two more weeks, after the team has two more scrimmages.

56.   But behind the scenes Monday, the arm-twisting and intrigue seemed to have much more to do with the no-holds-barred pursuit of power than with ideology or party loyalty.

57.   But Chamberlain seems forever consigned to secondary status because his foil had so many more.

58.   But Dr. Harpham soon found that she had much more to say to parents than could fit into a brief addendum.

59.   But Bouchard has five more years in office to work on bulking up that trigger finger.

60.   But his success in oil had far more to do with mergers than with gushers.