21.   Hutchison, a member of Senate Appropriations Committee, said it was premature to close more bases.

22.   I cannot forget that he came up with a far-out idea for how to close military bases by taking Congress out of the equation, and it worked.

23.   If Bush were to reject the revised findings, the process would be halted and no bases would be closed.

24.   If garbage passing through the chute contains a fork or a knife or a spoon, an alarm sounds and a spring-loaded door closes the base of the chute.

25.   In most communities where a base is closed, the redevelopment agency is run by a city or county.

26.   It usually takes five to six years to close a base, and in the short term is very costly.

27.   Lott said the action in Kosovo was proving to him that the military had become stretched and that no military base should be closed.

28.   Ms. Miller argued that one critical problem overlooked by the Clinton administration is that closing some bases tends to be far more expensive than keeping them open.

29.   Once the Navy closed the base, residents of Cecil County worked for years to reclaim the property.

30.   Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., agrees, but he will resist any attempt to close bases in Washington.