11.   Meanwhile, at another hearing HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said his agency is preparing for something more dramatic than an anthrax attack.

12.   Right now, the agency is preparing for the spring rush for its free counseling.

13.   Remembering its unpreparedness for the chaotic exodus of refugees from Kosovo, the agency is preparing for the worst.

14.   That agency prepares the estimates of revenues and spending that are the focus of the annual budget battle at City Hall.

15.   The agency is preparing contingency plans to cut surveys of workplace training and statistics on collective bargaining settlements, among other programs.

16.   The agency also prepared a plan to order the Coast Guard to seize any ships of the three lines found in U.S. harbors.

17.   The agency is already preparing a special regulation, which it hopes to issue this fall, requiring new inspection and maintenance procedures for all airline fuel tanks.

18.   The agency is also preparing to have the shuttles modified so their engines can aid the lifting job.

19.   The agency was preparing to issue the licenses, he said.

20.   The space agency also prepared Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as an alternate landing site.