11.   The House has just passed a tougher welfare reform proposal requiring still more hours of work for aid recipients, even as the job market softens.

12.   The tank company is one of several Wisconsin employers hiring former aid recipients.

13.   They are the first public aid recipients in New York to hit time limits under the federal welfare law.

14.   U.N. officials did not say how many aid recipients would be affected if the standoff continues.

15.   Unlike other European aid recipients, Germany repaid some of the Marshall aid loans back.

16.   Other aid recipients wishing the same must seek State Department approval, a difficult process, said a department spokeswoman who spoke on condition of anonymity.

17.   Aid recipients would not be required to attend worship services or religious instruction, and individuals would be offered access to assistance from nonreligious organizations if they desired.

18.   As the floods receded, aid recipients were put to work building shelters, repairing wells, renovating roads and clearing land and irrigation channels.

19.   Both countries are impoverished and major Australian aid recipients.

20.   CARE usually demands that aid recipients contribute in some way, but that rule had been bent in the face of the disaster.