1.   Officials are placing more emphasis on making streets attractive and on mass transportation.

2.   Officials have placed adverts in the British Medical Journal on behalf of the emirate, in a move which Labour has condemned as encouraging a medical brain drain.

3.   National Rivers Authority officials placed booms across the river at Barnard Castle and at a tributary further upstream, after being alerted.

4.   NRA officials placed booms across the river at Barnard Castle and a tributary further upstream after being alerted by Northumbrian Water.

5.   American officials are placing great hope in obtaining defections from leaders loyal to the Taliban, and Northern Alliance officials are working to persuade Taliban commanders to defect.

6.   American officials have squarely placed blame for the collision on the dead Chinese pilot, Wang Wei.

7.   And Missouri officials have placed on the product an embargo that will prevent Syntrax from releasing for sale the supply it has on hand.

8.   A new high-tech filing system will enable school officials to place important student records on a special Web site, eliminating the persistent threat of lost documents.

9.   After a reporter contacted them, district officials placed Wilbanks and Wright on administrative leave this month to investigate their records.

10.   Alarmed officials are placing most of the blame on shrimpers.