21.   Federal officials and economists have been saying for years that health care markets would operate like other markets if consumers had more information.

22.   Even women with husbands operate like single mothers, relying on their own mothers for child care and help around the house.

23.   Financed with federal school-to-work funds, the program operates like a small business inside the school, a sort of internal consulting company.

24.   For reasons that escape me, minorities have always been this way, operating like crabs in a barrel.

25.   For now, online retailers operate like mail-order companies that send packages around the country.

26.   For the first time in history, it operates like one big domestic market.

27.   Foreigners seeking asylum do not have the same legal standing as U.S. citizens, but that is no reason for an immigration court to operate like a Star Chamber.

28.   For decades, the academy operated like a boot camp, in which verbal abuse was thought to prepare recruits for the streets.

29.   GetSmart, which recently began advertising locally, operates much like a travel agent.

30.   He argued that the market in China should operate like a bird in a cage.