31.  About a third of states have good standards and two-thirds have weak ones when it comes to child care regulations, Dodd said.

32.  According to him, it was better to have a smaller number of large banks than a plethora of weak ones.

33.  Backers of an accord say it will boost competition, make winning companies more efficient and eliminate weak ones.

34.  Backers of an accord say that by dropping protectionism, Asian and other economies would allow competition that will make winning companies more efficient and eliminate weak ones.

35.  Forestry officials fear the hordes of beetles will invade healthy trees once they have finished with the weak ones.

36.  He said it was better to have a smaller number of large timber companies than many weak ones.

37.  That means the United States could be in a very strong group or a very weak one.

38.  The rebound on the KLCI late this week was a weak one, as the low volume on that rebound should prove unsustainable.

39.  They were the weak ones, marked for certain death.

40.  Weak ones should be merged with or acquired by stronger ones.