11.   He implored Congress to approve additional funding for the IMF to handle emergencies like the one in Asia, which it failed to do before adjourning last month.

12.   How HMOs handle medical emergencies is an issue of immense importance, given recent trends.

13.   It even has its own hospital and surgery suite capable of handling most emergencies, including pregnancies.

14.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has ordered the city Department of Investigation to examine how the emergency was handled.

15.   Medical emergencies were best handled with whatever happened to be in the medicine cabinet.

16.   NOAA is charged with providing unbiased scientific information to assist spill-response organizations in handling emergencies.

17.   Pared-back ambulance crews were hard-pressed to handle the emergency.

18.   Some praised railroad personnel for timely announcements and courteous expressions of concern that minimized panic, and for handling the emergency expeditiously.

19.   The complaint accuses Carnival of employing doctors who were poorly educated, not licensed in the United States and not skilled in handling emergencies.

20.   The hospital is ill-equipped to handle the emergency, rescue officials said.