51.   Buffalo was faced earlier this month with a home game similar in importance to this one.

52.   Brown has been overpowering since missing a month with a broken right pinkie, but Johnson has been unhittable.

53.   But after about a month with no job, his severance pay began to run out and he got scared.

54.   Bush has declined to appear at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire later this month with other Republican candidates.

55.   But Gore has been preoccupied over the last several months with the mechanics of his campaign and changing his image.

56.   But he has been idled, as they say in sports writing, for at least a month with a stress fracture in his lower back.

57.   But he said he had had discussions over many months with officials involved in the case who understood that he was representing David Kaczynski.

58.   But in her first months with the family, she is still in love with Arch and hoping she might find him.

59.   But it neatly links together two books which by the oddest of coincidences have been published in the same month with the exact same title.

60.   But Ottawa is expected to play without captain and leading scorer Daniel Alfredsson, who has missed the past month with a hip injury.