11.   Although each passing hour diminished the optimism for finding survivors, officials were hesitant to shift their focus from rescue efforts to a wholesale bulldozing and hauling of rubble.

12.   And many details of its aftermath reflect the rescue efforts in New York and Washington on that awful day in September.

13.   And their efforts would be augmented by deep-sea divers, who would be able to aid rescue efforts at much greater depths.

14.   Are visiting politicians and VIPs, who seek to preen in the mirror of tragedy, getting in the way of rescue efforts?

15.   As the afternoon wore on, fires continued to burn south of the complex and the rescue effort made little to no progress.

16.   As the rescue effort progressed, more than a dozen pieces of heavy excavating equipment arrived at the site of the slide.

17.   As its difficulties mounted, state and city support for a rescue effort was in serious doubt.

18.   As rescue efforts continued on Saturday, an exhausted volunteer rescue worker sleept in an alcove on Greenwich St. in Lower Manhattan.

19.   At first, most of those in the rescue effort believed the kidnappers were bluffing.

20.   At home, his three children had been told their father was in New York City helping with rescue efforts.