31.   Industry lawyers say that lawyers like Ms. Barnes are misusing the data, which is collected to help solve crimes, to make sweeping generalizations about firearms distribution.

32.   Industry lawyers said several other managed care companies were considering making similar requests to the panel.

33.   It has been long asserted that the council, which claimed to be independent, was a puppet of industry lawyers.

34.   It is also investigating whether the companies conspired to suppress information and defraud the government, and whether industry lawyers suppressed possibly damaging research.

35.   Kennard is likely to have a much more amicable relationship with Congress and his fellow commissioners, industry lawyers and observers say.

36.   Lindsey had gone through the agreement several weeks ago, outlining a number of areas he wanted industry lawyers to clarify.

37.   Minnesota attorneys and a tobacco industry lawyer are discussing whether to settle a lawsuit brought by the state to recoup health costs.

38.   Now Jones is dead, and tobacco industry lawyers hope to bury his legacy with him.

39.   On Wednesday, tobacco industry lawyers and anti-smoking advocates went to the White House and briefed deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey on negotiations.

40.   One industry lawyer, Meyer Koplow of New York, had previously worked with Rice to settle thousands of asbestos claims brought by Ness, Motley.