11.   Batam has a growing industrial park and nearby islands have cement operations.

12.   A combined operation would have greater buying power when dealing with vendors, giving it more pricing flexibility to compete against mass marketers, they said.

13.   A number of patients said the grueling operation had little or no effect on their paralysis.

14.   A prolonged operation would have far-reaching political implications abroad as well as in the United States.

15.   Absent U.S. participation, however, a multinational operation has yet to coalesce.

16.   All peacekeeping operations will have one or more advisers on children.

17.   But analysts pointed out that regardless of any antitrust actions, the combined operation will undoubtedly have fewer workers.

18.   But officials say it is hard to compare because the Kosovo operation has large start-up costs.

19.   By the end of October, the salvage operation will probably have to be suspended through much of the fall and winter, senior crash investigators have said.

20.   Enron manipulated the energy markets and cooked its own books in ways that would not have been possible if its operations had had a reasonable degree of transparency.