91.   But financial difficulties prevented their groups from becoming permanent.

92.   But Fairchild also said there was a second bidder on the helicopters, a group from Lebanon and Egypt who had inspected them on behalf of other Iraqi buyers.

93.   But not guitarist Eddie Van Halen, whose pitch-bending solos sometimes lift his namesake group from metal mediocrity.

94.   But most of the women at the commission meeting in Arlington, Va., represented state and local groups from across the country.

95.   But other lawmakers criticized the provisions of the legislation aimed at discouraging community groups from pressing banks to make more loans to the disadvantaged.

96.   But it was hard to penetrate the group from the inside.

97.   But some analysts say fear of antagonizing the United States would prevent these groups from aligning themselves too closely with bin Laden.

98.   But some academic researchers applauded the group from the University of Washington.

99.   But on Sunday, an Orange order group from Portadown marched to a church service, then tried to go back home through a predominantly Catholic area.

100.   But the English-Spanish language barrier kept the groups from resolving their differences.