21.   Across the country, state departments of motor vehicles keep lists of forbidden alphanumeric combinations that establish a kind of semiotic signpost to shifting standards of taste.

22.   After marrying her diplomat husband, Fred, she enjoyed the status and travel privileges of his state department job.

23.   But most recent examples of environmentally sensitive highway construction are a result of lawsuits by private organizations and state environmental departments.

24.   But Nigerian officials have repeatedly raised questions about a state department warning last month to Americans traveling in Nigeria.

25.   But Southwick, the state department official, said that debt relief was a complicated issue.

26.   But she also ruled that the state workers could not be held individually liable and that the state department for which they worked could not be sued.

27.   But the pharmacists argue that the drug benefit managers are large and complex organizations, which should be licensed by state pharmacy boards and supervised by state insurance departments.

28.   Call the state department of motor vehicles to determine if or how consignment sales are regulated.

29.   Call your state insurance department and ask where your insurance company ranks on the list of complaints.

30.   Consequently, phragmites has made a number of enemies, from state environmental departments to Ducks Unlimited, for which the health of wetlands is a primary goal.