11.   Government agencies often act in conservative ways, but Paul and I thought we were in a win-win situation.

12.   Haitian government officials and foreign diplomats here said it appeared the Defense Department and American intelligence agencies were acting to weaken Aristide, whom they had long distrusted.

13.   How can a national agency act as a patron in such an atmosphere?

14.   Hurd said the agency would only act if it identified safety defects in the vehicles that would require a recall.

15.   Kessler said he expected the agency to act quickly on the matter, almost certainly before the end of the year.

16.   Last week the firm asked the SEC to suspend trading in its stocks, pending an inquiry of the short-selling, but the agency did not act.

17.   Once the government agency had acted, thousands of women with silicone implants turned to the courts to pursue personal-injury cases.

18.   Only after the Citizens Coal Council, an environmental group, filed a complaint last May with the Albuquerque office, did the federal agency act.

19.   Ridge, asked why the postal employees had not been tested and the facility closed earlier, said agencies had acted on the information they had at the time.

20.   Similarly, if the agency did not act in a given period, the review would be turned over to a private review group.