31.   Accused of altering an official document and lying to a judge, he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges and did not serve any time in prison.

32.   After being approved as an ESP, applicants get an official state document with a PUC seal indicating that they are a registered power company.

33.   After a check of official documents, the diplomatic car was allowed to drive on.

34.   All this is courtesy of thesmokinggun.com, a Web site archive of court and other official documents, which recently posted the code.

35.   All were official documents that eventually were made public, but only after protracted and sometimes costly disputes with the keepers of those records.

36.   But many news reports continue to refer to any magnitude as a Richter magnitude, and even official state documents sometimes use the term erroneously.

37.   But now it has been raised in an eye-opening compilation of official documents from that turbulent time.

38.   But scientists overlook the fact that news releases are official documents and can become as important a part of history as papers in scientific journals.

39.   But Wednesday prosecutors cited official documents, bearing his signature, that they said meant death for dozens of Jews.

40.   Civilized nations preserve their heritage by keeping official documents, creating libraries -- and erecting monuments that serve as the visible symbols of the documented record.