11.   All non-essential workers were sent home at noon Tuesday while negotiations between the White House and congressional officials continued.

12.   All employees who work weekends were ordered to report for their scheduled shift, with supervisors poised to send nonemergency workers home.

13.   Bush has said he will invoke presidential powers to send striking workers back to work.

14.   But he soon got a call to report in, even as the base was going to its highest security level and sending most workers home.

15.   Citizens will receive surveys in the mail, and census workers will be sent on follow-up visits when there is no response.

16.   Company president Paul Sacksteder said his company continues to send workers to Tube Products.

17.   Companies that make products for the Canadian plants also sent workers home and shut down assembly lines.

18.   Federal workers are sent home because the government is broke.

19.   Government workers were sent home in November for six days.

20.   He said the city mobilized its forces as soon as it realized the damage, sending workers door to door to check on senior citizens.