1.   As I leave, it seems like the contest could go either way.

2.   A spokesman for CBS said the contest would go on with the rule-change intact.

3.   If the number of votes against Major or the number of abstentions is large enough, the contest will go to a second ballot.

4.   Now, against that backdrop, the Republican contest goes on.

5.   Oft mentioned for the US Senate in New York, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has let two winnable contests go by.

6.   Robbins said the Gore team had not decided whether to seek to enjoin the legislature from selecting electors while the legal contest was still going on.

7.   Since both these poses test credulity to the limit, it is no surprise that many voters snoozed off as the contest went on.

8.   The contest goes beyond the more mundane First Amendment problem such as a challenge to government restrictions on classified information.

9.   The real contest is going to be who gets the most votes, not the most money.

10.   The tense, tight and expensive contest went down to the very last minute.