51.   Brush Wellman officials had long argued that their confidence in the standard was based on two related and, they contended, unrefuted premises.

52.   Buchanan said his campaign officials had consistently argued that they rigidly followed rules in submitting names.

53.   Bush campaign officials argue that the projection depressed their turnout in those counties in the closing minutes, and that those votes may have been decisive.

54.   But administration officials argue that savings incentives primarily benefit the affluent, since they have the most money to save.

55.   But administration officials argue that those congressional leaders have been posturing, proposing largely symbolic programs that have no hope of success.

56.   Bureau officials have argued that Carnivore was carefully created and specific.

57.   Bush administration officials argued that the high prices gave incentive to power companies to build new power plants, which they said were desperately needed in California.

58.   But Boeing officials have argued that the dangers have been overstated.

59.   But company officials argued Wednesday that the growth in both Compuserve and America Online showed that those fears had not been borne out.

60.   But government officials argue that political grandstanding has exaggerated concerns about pollution in a year of municipal elections.