11.   Hahn was in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and making an effort to lobby federal officials for financial help for LAX and other airports.

12.   Guerrilla rebels who once fought to topple the government now lobby officials for access to clean drinking water.

13.   He also hired former Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, who lobbied officials at the Justice Department and the State Department in an effort to get the charges dismissed.

14.   He spends hours compiling lists of political and religious prisoners, then lobbies the officials for their release.

15.   He relentlessly lobbies city officials on behalf of small-business owners whose livelihoods and neighborhoods are threatened by the invasion of sprawling supermarkets and megastores.

16.   Kendall, who never had raced here, unsuccessfully lobbied SCCA officials for some practice laps yesterday morning before qualifying his unfamiliar car.

17.   Manuel Prutschi, executive director of the Ontario region of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said his organization would lobby provincial officials for partial financing.

18.   Many of the groups also lobby government officials on a wide range of domestic and international issues.

19.   McMullen continues to lobby state officials to build a privately financed arena for the Devils in Hoboken, N.J., in a proposed venture with Cablevision.

20.   More broadly, the same forces that have been lobbying environmental officials in Southern California are active across the country.