21.   Each time the bridge advisory panel meets to consider a new plan, it is greeted with standing-room crowds.

22.   Even as Bush spoke, the Federal Reserve was meeting to consider cutting interest rates yet again to try to rejuvenate the economy.

23.   EU ministers are meeting to consider the detailed list of technology products for the accord.

24.   Fed officials, who left rates unchanged since January, next meet to consider monetary policy in early February.

25.   Fed policy makers next meet to consider cutting interest rates a week from tomorrow.

26.   In the Senate, a bipartisan group met to consider what an acceptable bill should contain.

27.   Its board is meeting to consider selling shares in Europe.

28.   Last fall, it met to consider options that included acquisitions, joint ventures, a sale of an equity stake or a merger.

29.   Midway through the year, the school board met to consider using a drug-sniffing dog to search lockers.

30.   Next Tuesday Federal Reserve policy makers meet to consider changing benchmark borrowing rates.