11.   It was the second session being billed as a monthly government briefing, the first to which foreign reporters were invited.

12.   It went so well that he invited the reporters back for another get-together on Tuesday afternoon.

13.   Last week he invited reporters to two off-the-record dinners in Central America and on Friday he is to hold his first full-dress press conference in nearly a year.

14.   Last July, after an army offensive that killed hundreds of rebels, officials invited reporters to the battle zone before all the corpses were whisked away.

15.   Last Saturday night, Gore broke a deep freeze with his campaign press corps by inviting reporters to an off-the-record gathering on the riverboat.

16.   Mrs. Glotova, who came to the United States from Russia five years ago, invited reporters into her sparsely furnished, clean home Wednesday.

17.   Now they drop in regularly, and officers have gone so far as to invite reporters in for lunch.

18.   On Thursday, Tommy Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, invited a reporter to his office for a one-on-one chat.

19.   Once Knoblauch had spoken to Torre, he basically invited reporters over to his locker.

20.   Reporters were not invited to the conference, but one who registered anyway was allowed to attend.