51.  As a result, he said, "the statutory mechanism intended to enhance confidence in law enforcement thus had the effect of weakening it."

52.  As a result, more beverages had to be recalled and destroyed, thus raising the costs.

53.  Doing the return duct will keep that return air from cooling off excessively, thus taking more fuel to reheat it.

54.  Defense lawyers had alleged that the prosecution "wants" a mistrial and thus is harassing the few remaining jurors.

55.  Dole said he had complemented Ford's candidacy by providing the expertise in agricultural issues and thus could strengthen the 1976 GOP ticket in the Farm Belt.

56.  Dominguez thus becomes world champion the old fashioned way.

57.  Disney characters on some milkcaps were not licensed by Disney and thus would have no long-term collectible value, they said.

58.  Do you, for example, campaign through the dairy farms around Saratoga, and thus shore up critical upstate support?

59.  DOWD-COLUMN _ It Was Ever Thus.

60.  Downey thus earned a special place in the curious world of wild history, a tradition that seeks solutions to the past's more intriguing unanswered questions.