21.   But the majority also said that he was not doing enough to combat poverty, make streets and highways safer, and punish corrupt public officials.

22.   But some Palestinians say he has ties to corrupt officials, and he has had trouble expanding his reach beyond Gaza into the West Bank, Palestinian analysts say.

23.   But there are more corrupt officials in China than that.

24.   But while McCarron instituted notable reforms such as booting a corrupt officials and developing an equitable hiring system, he has also been criticized.

25.   But Zedillo was neither corrupted by office, nor a patsy for the corrupt officials in which the PRI still abounds.

26.   Company owners competed for the loyalties of corrupt local officials.

27.   Corrupt local officials there had cheated him out of land and logging revenues, he said.

28.   Despite occasional turf wars, narcotics investigators say these groups work in concert, sharing shipment lines, corrupt officials and market areas.

29.   Dr. Ramphele was encouraged when Mbeki said in his inaugural address that corrupt officials would be rooted out.

30.   Elsewhere he unreels his dark views of shopping-mall developers, corrupt union officials, Chicago mobsters, paranoid militia men and bottom-line newspaper publishers.