21.   Rigorous training helped the California units deal appropriately with their confrontations, the colonel said, as he explained the earlier two incidents.

22.   Security had been stepped up all month because of the earlier incident.

23.   Six months later, Langer ruled Caes had faked the earlier incident.

24.   The agents also studied an earlier incident in which high explosives were intercepted near the Jordanian border.

25.   The AP quoted aviation consultant Jim McKenna as saying that the earlier incident could have weakened the aircraft.

26.   The government report also cited three earlier incidents of TB transmission on domestic flights involving flight attendants and crew members.

27.   The police had also learned of an earlier incident, in which Avanesian had slapped one of his children and thrown a chair at another.

28.   The nine victims of the earlier incident were killed during the Gulf war.

29.   The plaintiffs argued that the company knew of earlier incidents of Tylenol tampering and therefore was negligent in failing to use tamper-proof packaging.

30.   The rapid response to the latest incident apparently stems in part from changes made in the wake of two earlier incidents.