21.   The administration has not prepared the American public, Congress or its NATO allies for a protracted, even if limited, ground operation.

22.   The administration is preparing for three days of briefings to build support for its Kosovo policy as soon as the House and Senate return next week.

23.   The administration is preparing proposals to establish quality requirements for dialysis, a life-saving treatment for patients whose kidneys have failed.

24.   The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and is readying an executive order freezing the assets of known terrorists.

25.   The Bush administration is preparing to allow the coal mining industry to fill waterways and valleys with the rock and dirt from mountaintop mining, particularly in West Virginia.

26.   The Clinton administration is preparing to evict dozens of protesters camped at the Navy bombing range on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.

27.   The Clinton administration is already preparing a set of guidelines due out soon that would define what incumbent carriers can do when competing with smaller rivals.

28.   The Clinton administration is preparing to send its own plan to overhaul Depression-era banking laws to Capitol Hill early next year.

29.   The Pataki administration is preparing to transfer several hundred state workers out of New York City to the Binghamton area, state officials said Thursday.

30.   The Sharon government has grown increasingly alarmed at the prospect of an initiative for peace that the administration has been preparing.