21.   To run Chrysler after Kerkorian took it over seemed the obvious answer -- though Kerkorian was in no better financial shape to buy Chrysler than was before.

22.   Though the most brutal phase of the operation seemed over, a major furor was taking shape over the fate of Palestinian men killed in Jenin.

23.   While the war in Kosovo seems over and peace may be at hand, it has taken its toll on the European cruise season.

24.   But this mission, featuring a bitter Kosovo winter and cramped quarters in a wheatfield encampment, seemed over the edge.

25.   Difficult times for the money-losing computer and telecommunications company did not seem over, however.

26.   The sharpest fault line in Basque society seemed not over independence as an objective, but over the means to achieve it.