11.   Federal investigators have repeatedly described the problems in confidential reports to top Medicare officials in the past three years.

12.   For the most part, the observers described the problems on voting day as neither systematic in nature nor decisive in the results.

13.   From that point on, the DPS could not describe its problems as a safety concern, he said.

14.   Gonzalez, whose staff conducted the investigation, described the problems as serious and has asked the banking committee and Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate.

15.   He had himself hospitalized and variously described his problems as schizophrenia or depression.

16.   Heaton described the problem in two talks given this week at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which is being held in San Francisco.

17.   House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio, drafts a letter describing funding problems with a nuclear waste bill strongly opposed by Nevada lawmakers.

18.   If you describe the problems in the economy too bluntly, you run the risk of having people lose confidence.

19.   It is, to be sure, early in the campaign, when it is not uncommon for candidates to spend more time describing problems then suggesting solutions.

20.   Joseph A. Rogers, executive director of the group, said the draft did not sufficiently describe problems associated with the treatment.