41.  Caught between the imperatives of its pro-Yugoslavian foreign policy and its pressing economic needs, Russia did its best on Wednesday to head off a NATO attack.

42.  City commissioners who oversee Travel Town say even if the funding were available, Travel Town would take a back seat to other, more pressing needs.

43.  Consumers, the analysts say, see no pressing need for computers with the latest, fastest chips.

44.  Democrats also played up public exhaustion with the Lewinsky story, arguing that other pressing needs were being neglected.

45.  Democrats say they are simply responding to public sentiment and pressing needs.

46.  Few companies see a pressing need for a new layer of personnel policies aimed at bullying.

47.  For one thing, they argue that the funds will go to districts with the most political clout rather than those with the most pressing needs.

48.  For the moment, they have a more pressing need.

49.  Gaston had a pressing need to play Kenny Lofton, whose first-half stats carry the chilling ring of Ty Cobb, and Lofton did not disappoint.

50.  Hastert, however, insisted that each school district have the right to use the money for its most pressing needs.