81.   But companies and government offices take time to translate interest into actual purchases, especially in an economy that continues to waver.

82.   But complaints are starting to pile up in local government offices in cities like Sacramento, Portland, Ore., and Suffolk, Va.

83.   But neither side wanted to be accused of shutting the door on either government offices or the possibility of compromise.

84.   But that did not satisfy hundreds of would-be immigrants who chanted slogans, waved signs, and briefly scuffled with police outside government offices here.

85.   But the FBI, which conducts background checks on people nominated for high government offices, still has not completed its investigation of the matter, government officials said.

86.   But the shut-down of some government offices in the Washington budget dispute delayed citizenship applications and doomed those hopes.

87.   But winds smashed the roof and malls of the Nisky Center, a shopping mall that comprises some government offices, and the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

88.   But winds smashed the roof and walls of the Nisky Center, which contains stores, and some government offices.

89.   But those phones went to government offices and businesses.

90.   But until now, aides to Clinton had no answers when asked why the White House and other government offices were not making similar efforts.