11.   Authorities gave no reason for delaying the trial of the defendant, Lin Hai, which had been scheduled to begin on Friday in Shanghai.

12.   Authorities gave no reason for the threats against Curl, whom co-workers described as a gentle man with an infectious good humor.

13.   At the Refugee Ministry, the new minister, Enayatullah Nazeri, said he would have to wait for higher authorities to give him a budget.

14.   A-bomb microcephalic victims and their parents hope authorities will give them special permission to live in facilities for the aged and for A-bomb victims.

15.   But many came to revel in the limited license that the Iranian authorities have given musicians to climb out of the Tehran underground and onto a Kish stage.

16.   But the authority gave Padico a head start.

17.   Canadian authorities also have given approval, Portland, Oregon-based Freightliner said.

18.   Chinese authorities gave them cigarettes and allowed them to exercise, read news reports, and exchange e-mails with relatives through the US intermediaries.

19.   Congressional Republicans and the Clinton administration are on the verge of agreeing to legislation that would allow public housing authorities to give more vacant apartments to working families.

20.   Djukic said he once lived in Sarajevo until the authorities there gave his apartment to some refugees.