51.   Many of those concerns have focused on the prospects of four Asian-Americans whom the groups had hoped would gain coveted political posts.

52.   McKay said the Columbia group hopes to do retinal transplants in US patients in the next year or so, and predicts many other such experiments.

53.   Ms. Seidman said her group hoped to make the service available to everyone by adding a toll-free telephone line this summer.

54.   Moller said the group hopes to research and help establish a micro-credit lending program that would provide loans to widows so they can start businesses.

55.   Neel said the Ad Hoc group hopes to see the legislation changed by then.

56.   Now the trade group hopes to use its clout to make service providers pay more attention to the complaints rising from the business travel market.

57.   One civic group simply hopes the public will reward those who take the high road.

58.   One clinical trial has recently been approved by the FDA and two other groups also hope to win approval within a year.

59.   Schadel said in an interview that his group hoped its research would help unravel some secrets of the nuclear structures of extremely heavy elements.

60.   She said her group hoped to appeal to community pride by attacking the interference of the ACLU.