21.   But others say that the reports also appear aimed at settling old political scores on behalf of the government and its supporters in the business community.

22.   But the Business Week report appears to be the first time that a specific relationship has prompted scrutiny from government investigators.

23.   But the IBM report appears to offer a method for quantifying the risk of failure -- in the planning stages.

24.   But the report appears to have satisfied no one.

25.   But the report does not appear to offer any other evidence to document those claims.

26.   But, he said, the report appeared in the newspaper anyway.

27.   CBS and ABC both presented the story at the top of their evening newscasts, and the report appeared regularly on radio stations throughout the day.

28.   Curiously, the reports of executions appeared among Japanese hostages who returned home, but not among those in Peru.

29.   Even as Pop.com was dying last month, reports appeared about a possible merger with Ifilm, which never materialized.

30.   Finally he is confronting the principals, and a report to Congress appears near.