1.   And each time technicians simply told him to reload the program and try again.

2.   A fire control technician has told investigators that he had tracked the vessel to that distance but failed to record its location on paper or inform the captain.

3.   A technician once told me that people often wondered whether the phone was required for the modem to work.

4.   A technician tells them in flat tones not to touch anything, or themselves.

5.   A technician told him the connection had been shoddily installed, so he called a MediaOne supervisor, left a message and never heard back.

6.   Not to worry, the computer technician told me.

7.   Technicians will tell you they look at fundamental factors, and fundamentalists look at lots of technical factors.

8.   The technicians later told EMS officials that they thought the call was a prank.

9.   When I called my provider, a technician told me that sending unsolicited advertising by e-mail is illegal.

10.   Francantonio Granero, the Italian prosecutor investigating the accident, said a U.S. technician had told authorities that a recording device had been removed from the plane.