11.   Amateur boxing officials have long claimed their sport is far safer than the pros and have lobbied successfully to keep it in the Olympics.

12.   Anyway, county officials claim to have no money to upgrade the Astrodome.

13.   As usual, officials claimed increased success in interdicting shipments of drugs and reducing areas of production.

14.   Atheist officials claim to have no idea of their whereabouts.

15.   Board of Education officials claim that the process harms the special-education students who remain in the public system.

16.   A Taliban official also claimed that the United States has begun using chemical and biological weapons against the population of Afghanistan.

17.   After a year of background investigations and close supervision of employers and employees, even city officials will not claim that the mob is completely out.

18.   Air Force officials claim human health is not being affected, pointing to preliminary results from a study by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

19.   But Russian officials claim that the United States is providing no information.

20.   But officials claimed the species would be OK since they exist elsewhere in the forest.