21.   Bush administration officials have expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of many such aid programs and have often argued against providing more money through traditional lending agencies.

22.   Business owners and their advocates have also complained that some government aid programs demand too much in loan collateral, or reject too many deserving business owners.

23.   But as he considered the failures of other misbegotten African aid programs, Davies had a change of heart.

24.   But Goodling, formerly a high school principal, counters that eliminating the department would only spread its duties to other agencies and jeopardize student aid programs.

25.   But Grossman insisted that his delegation was simply reviewing the U.S. aid program, a hand-me-down from the Clinton administration.

26.   But projected UN budgets for Afghanistan are modest compared with big bilateral aid programs being planned by the United States, Japan and some European states.

27.   But the communities in whose name the uprising began have seen little political benefit, despite the government aid programs that the uprising indirectly engendered.

28.   But the key to any aid program is improving the worsening security situation.

29.   But then he applied to Rutgers and learned about the Educational Opportunity Fund, a New Jersey financial aid program for students from low-income families.

30.   But Weld has largely been mis-sing in action on the subject of Republican-proposed cuts in federal student aid programs.