11.   -- Bosnia, where Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole wants the West to take firm action against rebel Serbs.

12.   Church officials reject such suggestions, pointing to slow but firm action by the church and strong legislative and police measures to fight pedophilia in general.

13.   Even among those retailers who have taken firm action, principled idealism is tempered with a good deal of pragmatism.

14.   Firm action to expand government spending and rescue the banking system is at last being promised.

15.   Leaders with a talent mindset regularly conduct these kinds of discussions, and they result in firm action plans that describe how each unit will strengthen its talent pool.

16.   Nations need only look at the US-led campaign in Afghanistan to realize that Washington will take firm action against any regime that harbors terrorists, they say.

17.   She has urged Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to take firm action against militant groups in areas under his control.

18.   The possibility that Forest Service leadership could change following the November elections argues for firm action now.

19.   The United States has blocked aggressive inspections while it tries to build a consensus for firm action in the U.N. Security Council.

20.   U.S. troops took firm action Thursday against one of the most dangerous problems now confronting NATO in Kosovo.