51.   Officials of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, hailed the findings as a possible opening to eventual treatment of the sometimes disabling condition.

52.   One sarcastically asked reporters whether the campaign could provide them any further grist for snide openings to their articles.

53.   Or should he have betrayed his following and made the opening to China?

54.   Perked up by this early lead, the emerald-clad Irish players never gave an opening to the Saudis, who were dressed in desert whites.

55.   Reformist media welcomed the opening to the West, but conservative dailies sounded a cautionary note.

56.   Schoenfeld mentioned the opening to Jacobs, a crusty, somber-looking lawyer who was in practice with his brother, largely handling jewelers.

57.   Screen rain barrels and openings to water tanks or cisterns.

58.   Shimon Sheves, an aide to Rabin who took part in the meeting, said the encounter was an important opening to Arab countries not bordering Israel.

59.   Sihanouk, who still has his North Korean bodyguards, opposes an opening to South Korea, but his friends in Pyongyang undercut him with the Tanaka affair.

60.   Small retailers received some protection from their larger competitors last year when the government restricted hypermarket weekend openings to eight days a year.