51.   But aides to Massachusetts Transportation Secretary James J. Kerasiotes blasted the report as inflammatory and sensationalized.

52.   But as the markets welcomed the prospect of a slowdown, the administration saw the report as signaling that economic growth was still robust and creating new jobs.

53.   But Bloomberg administration officials described the report as a naive political broadside meant to scare the public.

54.   But few dismissed the report as a pure anomaly.

55.   But he also said it would have been difficult for Ms. Rossi to bring about the changes that Ms. Ragaglia had proposed in her reports as child advocate.

56.   But he said that Bush was now in more of a bind because he could not dismiss the report as the product of bureaucrats without responding to it.

57.   But in a letter to Politan, Guadagno defended the report as a routine filing.

58.   But in his final report as drug czar, McCaffrey kept his focus on the positive.

59.   But Ms. Albright and other delegates welcomed the report as a basis for Security Council discussion on streamlining operations.

60.   But researchers have attacked the report as methodologically flawed because it counted people as improved even though they might have dropped out of the study before it was done.