101.   Both companies operate as real estate investment trusts, or REITs, and are based in Chicago.

102.   But anyone with any common sense knows Arafat is a prop, that Hamas and Islamic Jihad will continue to operate as they please.

103.   But because they do not necessarily operate as advisers or brokers, there is plenty of opportunity to escape the scrutiny of regulators.

104.   But Georg Kofler, chief of KirchPayTV, said it would continue to operate as the company looks for new investors.

105.   But he plans to continue operating as long as possible.

106.   But for the most part, it operates as farce theater, unworthy of serious attention.

107.   But G.E. argues that Mr. Liotier was operating solely as an executive of Diamond Boart and that there was no agreement with De Beers to fix prices.

108.   But in complicated, multibuilding operations, like a hospital complex or a college campus operating as a custom network, the consequences could be severe.

109.   But in practice it operates as a revising body, reworking the raw bills from the lower chamber and filling in the details and closing the loopholes.

110.   But it also operates as an homage to twilight, summer, and childhood, the fleeting aspects of life.