21.   A negative result would be a relief, and a positive result would enable more vigilant screening and perhaps earlier treatment.

22.   But proponents of the initiative immediately dismissed the survey as a methodologically flawed poll that prompted negative results from respondents and deviated too much from others to be credible.

23.   Callers will be advised of the possibility of a false positive or false negative result, the FDA said.

24.   Doctors discovered that negative results are more likely for patients who have had long exposure to the drug AZT.

25.   For the second consecutive week, Aikman underwent a magnetic resonance imaging that bore negative results.

26.   Forcing the child to continue to go by an unliked name can have negative results.

27.   Given that several thousand people have been tested with negative results, the small number of actual cases could be considered good news.

28.   In an interview Thursday, one of two principal investigators in the study, Dr. Laura C. Bowman, sounded elated and relieved by the negative results.

29.   Interdiscount is on the brink of bankruptcy after posting consecutive net losses in the past two years, particularly because of negative results in France.

30.   It raises the question of whether negative results are being withheld from publication, he said.