11.   Some families have abandoned their homes for the second or third time.

12.   The defoliation, Palacios said, has prompted many farmers and their families to abandon their homes.

13.   The residents of the dwelling most recently threatened, George and Carol Goebel, abandoned their home three weeks ago after the building was declared unsafe.

14.   The settlers refuse to abandon their homes, although some concede they are afraid.

15.   The test allowed public health officials to determine quickly where people needed to abandon tainted homes and where people could move back in and resume their lives.

16.   Their goal may be to terrorize these villagers into abandoning their homes, thus leaving formerly Serb areas uninhabited.

17.   There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries in the Wilkes-Barre area, where most businesses closed and homes were abandoned.

18.   They apparently like to slip under house roofing, inside siding, under any ground trash and in abandoned yards, other brushy areas and abandoned farm homes.

19.   They have abandoned their homes and moved their families west into the area controlled by the Tajik commander Ismail Khan.

20.   They began preparations to abandon their home, perhaps forever.