51.   Both McCain and Bush will be distracted this month by Republican primaries and caucuses in seven other states, leaving them limited time to campaign at length in California.

52.   Both probably will be auctioned within the next few months by the two agencies, which seized them as part of the assets of failed lending institutions.

53.   Both states are expected to be hurt in coming months by the rainy spring weather, which flooded some farm fields for the third year in a row.

54.   Bucaram was ousted earlier this month by Congress, which ruled he was mentally unfit to govern.

55.   But Gates made waves early this month by announcing that Corbis had won the exclusive rights to the celebrated Adams collection for an undisclosed sum.

56.   But Maragall was eager to help his campaign for re-election in municipal voting later this month by showing off yet another of his Olympic projects.

57.   But the campus was stunned again earlier this month by the arrests of two black students in connection with the fliers.

58.   But the fortunes of dot-coms have been jolted in recent months by falling advertising revenues and market valuations.

59.   But the White House hopes to salvage a compromise gun-control measure from two very different bills passed this month by the House and Senate.

60.   But the streets and politicians have had most of their attention and much of their energy consumed for months by a stadium fight.