11.   Blech officials failed to return telephone calls.

12.   - District officials failed to evacuate students at South Gate High School during an asbestos cleanup on the same floor.

13.   -- Mississippi officials failed to persuade the Supreme Court to revive a state law that sanctions voluntary student prayer in public schools.

14.   A team of UN inspectors was prevented from visiting suspected weapons sites today after Iraqi officials failed to provide escorts, UN officials said.

15.   Bryant feels officials are often failing to call fouls when he gets hacked driving the lane.

16.   But for reasons not yet adequately explained, Energy Department officials failed to remove him from classified weapons work until late last year.

17.   But officials failed to notice the pattern, which would have alerted them to the problem a year earlier.

18.   But state officials failed to promptly reprogram the computer system, which has continued to deny medical benefits automatically.

19.   But state officials failed to solve any of these crimes or to order the police to curb them.

20.   California Department of Fish and Game lieutenant Mark Crossland admits that wild salmon endured years of mismanagement, when officials failed to protect their fresh-water spawning grounds.