81.   The federal government on Sunday agreed to issue a public apology, according to a source familiar with the case.

82.   The IRS commissioned the study after Senate hearings in late September in which taxpayers and whistle-blowers described various abuses, moving the agency to issue an extraordinary public apology.

83.   The litany of complaints prompted an extraordinary public apology a week ago from IRS Acting Commissioner Michael Dolan.

84.   The players should have fired Orza on the spot and made public apologies to Usery, President Clinton and the American public.

85.   The suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages and a public apology from ABC, says that the slides were properly tested and that the laboratory does competent work.

86.   The stunt prompted Philip Ting, president of the Organization of Chinese Americans in San Francisco, to call for a public apology.

87.   The trustees issued several public apologies for the investigation, and have asked a local lawyer to conduct an independent inquiry as to whether any laws were broken.

88.   Theirs will scarcely be the first public apologies to fail for perceived lack of sincerity, inadequate explanation, or incomplete acknowledgment of responsibility.

89.   There should be a public apology from the state authority to the people for what happened.

90.   Troubled celebrities have used the programs for public apologies.