31.  After similar efforts, sea lions let their keeper rub them.

32.  Airbus put similar effort into pleasing the single-most important person on any airliner, the pilot.

33.  Bush and Clinton have patterned their proposals after a similar effort in Chicago, where students who fail to meet graduation standards are required to attend summer school.

34.  Building it may spur entire industries, as when similar efforts inspired interactive computing, Web browsers and the Internet itself.

35.  But he also said raising student skill levels will require additional money for summer school, after-school programs and similar efforts.

36.  But he did try to reassure other shoppers, who politely asked him questions, that similar efforts would be made in other parts of the city.

37.  But little did I know that my very own city was preparing a similar effort involving large, gaily decorated statues of cows.

38.  But people at the organization said they could recall no similar systematic effort to mount a legal challenge against the U.S. government through contacts with foreign diplomats.

39.  But similar efforts to rally massive popular support behind the Communist Party have fizzled in recent years.

40.  But until now, aides to Clinton had no answers when asked why the White House and other government offices were not making similar efforts.