21.   Gray released his update recently at the closing session of the National Hurricane Conference, an annual gathering of emergency managers and weather forecasters and researchers.

22.   He ends his tour on the Japanese island of Okinawa, where he is due to arrive late Friday for the annual gathering of leading industrial countries.

23.   He received a standing ovation at the recent Dorchester Conference, an annual Republican gathering.

24.   He suffered a heart attack at an annual family gathering in Ocean Isle, his wife, Eleanor, said.

25.   In the roaring welcome the DLC gave the president at its annual gathering Monday, however, all seemed forgiven, at least for the moment.

26.   Isaacson had come for the Fortune Global Forum, an annual gathering of corporate chiefs and a token world leader or two.

27.   It happened to two comics performing at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival here, the most important annual gathering of the comedy business.

28.   It is also not the kind of place you would expect to find the overindulgences of a turkey feast or the annual gathering of the clan.

29.   It was the only originally designed rotorcraft at the annual gathering of experimental aircraft enthusiasts at Oshkosh, Wis., in July.

30.   Its annual gathering of world leaders is next month.