31.   The commission has a staff of independent investigators who check the stories, and the panel decides on amnesty after a quasi-judicial proceeding.

32.   The conservative panel also decided to hold onto the case, instead of following the usual practice of handing off to another panel for full consideration.

33.   The bulk of the settlement hinges on a so-called science trial, where a panel would decide whether the implants cause the diseases.

34.   The case arrived at the Supreme Court after a divided three-judge panel decided last month to enforce a grand jury subpoena issued last June.

35.   The GATT accord establishes a new World Trade Organization, whose panels will decide if countries are violating the new rules.

36.   The government and LDP tax panels will decide on the size of the proposed tax cuts in mid-December, party officials said on condition of anonymity.

37.   The panel also decided the industry should be governed by state, not federal, regulators.

38.   The panel decided that a positive statement about the healthfulness of vegetarian diets was needed since such diets are compatible with the advice in the guidelines.

39.   The panel soon will decide whether AOL has to share its profitable instant-messaging technology.

40.   The panel will decide whether to overturn the class-action certification the late Judge Okla Jones II granted last year to plaintiffs, led by Dianne Castano.