11.   Inquiries focused on public information such as voting records and court cases.

12.   Investigators say their inquiries also focused on Kenneth W. Littleton Jr. of Belmont, Mass., a former live-in tutor for the Skakel children.

13.   Most inquiries have instead focused on monkeys, chimpanzees, gorillas and dolphins, all of which are much more difficult to raise, feed and handle.

14.   Republicans, however, made it clear that the inquiry will focus primarily on Democratic Party fund-raising efforts during the presidential campaign involving foreign contributions.

15.   That inquiry focused on whether Gingrich broke House rules, and was expanded to determine whether he then lied to the investigating committee.

16.   The criminal inquiry is focusing on whether officials from Loral and other companies who participated in the review violated American export control laws.

17.   The federal inquiry also focused on that issue and reached the same conclusion.

18.   The inquiries focused on producers of vegetables and fruits because they are not regulated as carefully as larger crops, like feed corn and soybeans.

19.   The Justice Department inquiry focuses on whether the practice of assigning unsolicited ratings on some debt is anticompetitive.

20.   The inquiry first focused on a handful dilutions of chemotherapy medications obtained by Hunter and through an FBI sting operation.