21.   Bush had ruled out resuming the negotiations begun during the Clinton administration before a policy review.

22.   Bread makers have been selling out of stores ranging from Williams-Sonoma to discounters, in all price ranges, and the madness began during the Thanksgiving weekend.

23.   But aides have argued that his first term began during Soviet times and therefore does not count.

24.   But the rush toward a free trade world, which began during the Reagan and Bush years, is threatening the little security American garment workers still have.

25.   But they did not say they would insist that disarmament begin during the talks, as Trimble and other Protestant leaders have insisted.

26.   Chiles has had a history of ulcerative colitis and intestinal distress, which first began during his military service in Korea.

27.   Current proposals would explicitly allow credit unions to resume the expansion they had begun during financial deregulation under the Reagan administration.

28.   Eight years later, Steve Bono, Erik Kramer and Mark Rodenhauser are still in the league with careers that began during the strike.

29.   Earlier this week, the verbal war began during media teleconferences.

30.   Engineers eventually traced the shutdown, which began during an early-morning maintenance procedure, to a combination of software bugs and human error.