31.  A bill awaiting action would end benefits for addicts and alcoholics.

32.  A bill that would have required parental consent for abortions died during the last session.

33.  A bill that would have slashed child support payments for most divorced fathers failed in the state Assembly.

34.  A Bill will be introduced to replace private legislation as the means for authorising transport development schemes.

35.  A bipartisan commission had worked for more than a year to produce the blueprint for the legislation that the House passed.

36.  A bipartisan drive to change the rules for financing federal campaigns is running into stiff resistance from veteran members of Congress.

37.  A bit too frail and woolly for the rough and tumble of ordinary practice.

38.  A black feather boa, perhaps bought for the Black Ascot, curved lavishly round to cancel any suggestion of nakedness.

39.  A bomb is a terrible and random instrument for tearing flesh.