11.   Following the comment period, commission staff will decide whether to modify its plan before submitting it to commissioners for a vote.

12.   He contends the commission staff is using the issue of space to cloak the bigger racial concerns.

13.   In coming weeks, Bruseth said, historical commission staff will conduct detailed sonar tests at the site about seven miles from the place the Belle sank.

14.   Levitt praised the two firms for working with the commission staff and said he hoped that other firms would be willing to join in the talks.

15.   Mullally said that for almost nine months the commission staff had examined various allegations involving Station Casinos on a confidential basis.

16.   One sore point was a lack of financing that he said had reduced the commission staff to supplicants.

17.   Proposed rules drafted by the commission staff were criticized by industry representatives as more restrictive than envisioned by lawmakers.

18.   She told The Chronicle that the utilities should simply have acted without guidance from commission staff.

19.   Still, two Gingrich appointees served on the base-closure commission and a former Nunn aide played a key role on the commission staff.

20.   The commission staff did its own calculations, however, and found that the payback period was no more than a year for Kelly and McClellan.