11.   In the prior months, West had recorded a rap album and supported the political campaigns of Bill Bradley and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

12.   Investors also got evidence of slow inflation on Friday, when the government said prices paid to producers in October rose less than in the prior month.

13.   Months prior to the event, an advertising campaign appeared urging service workers such as hairdressers, taxi drivers and waiters to be nice to World Cup visitors.

14.   Nearly three-fourths of all probationers had some contact with their probation officer during the month prior to being surveyed.

15.   Rivetti said performers spend every weekend for a month prior to the faire learning history, manners, speech and dress of the period.

16.   Sales so far this month are unchanged from the prior month.

17.   Speedy payment of tax refunds in prior months also helped restrain the March deficit, according to analysts at NationsBank Corp. in New York.

18.   Speedy payment of tax refunds in prior months also helped limit the March deficit, according to NationsBank Corp. analysts in New York.

19.   That means more than three-fourths of the manufacturers surveyed reported either improved conditions or no change from the prior month.

20.   Trading would end on the fourth-to-last business day of the month prior to the delivery month.