51.   Kennard said he had hoped that the studies would provide a blueprint for a Gore administration to take new steps on behalf of small companies.

52.   McCarty said the Cornell study had provided an extremely valuable tool for understanding how bacteria could be used to help rid the environment of chlorinated solvents.

53.   New studies might provide enough information, however, to either impose permanent bans or to give some reasonable assurances of their safe usage.

54.   Now, two new studies provide the first evidence that those suspicions are correct.

55.   Other kinds of analysis have come to essentially the same conclusions, but the study provides a new, independent line of evidence.

56.   One study provides the first direct evidence that the nutrient that makes tomatoes red may protect men against prostate cancer.

57.   Phil Fontanarosa, the JAMA editor who handled the paper, agrees that the study does not provide a definitive answer about Gulf War syndrome.

58.   Professional studies provide personal benefits as well.

59.   Scientists have relied on such studies to provide the evidence about the hazards of cigarette smoking, Alderman said.

60.   School officials say the study provides the most comprehensive look ever at the psychological impact of a major disaster on school children.