31.   The debate within the organization, then and now, he said, was how the agency would operate in an era of managed care.

32.   The outcry also prompted Secretary of State Colin Powell to call on Israel to allow relief agencies to operate in the camp.

33.   The Republicans do not dispute that cutting the budget will reduce the work force but argue that the agency could operate more efficiently with fewer people.

34.   The Treasury says the public is best served by making sure government agencies operate at the lowest possible cost, including in their borrowing.

35.   These aid agencies operate independently of a U.N.-led relief coalition that delivers food and other help only to areas approved by the government.

36.   Towns and cities are so chaotic that relief agencies cannot safely operate.

37.   Peter Oryema, the secretary-general of the Ugandan Red Cross said the agency was not operating around Bundibuyo, and he had no information on the reported outbreak.

38.   About two dozen non-governmental agencies are operating in eastern Congo, he said.

39.   Although not recognized internationally, Somaliland has been relatively peaceful and aid agencies operate more freely than in the rest of Somalia.

40.   Both agencies operate under Arafat and deal with similar security issues.