21.   Jamaican authorities acknowledge they have made little headway in their investigation.

22.   Meanwhile, some residents here feel that it would be better for all sides if the authorities acknowledged that there was a problem and addressed it.

23.   Most guards are armed but few are trained or licensed, and the authorities acknowledge they have little control over them.

24.   Previously, federal authorities acknowledged their focus was on two cancer-fighting drugs, Taxol and Gemzar.

25.   Since then, the authorities have acknowledged that they have unearthed no concrete evidence to support that theory.

26.   The authorities acknowledge that he has since vanished.

27.   The authority has acknowledged the risk of lawsuits even before construction begins if work proceeds with an FAA hazard finding.

28.   The authority has acknowledged some of its own treatment problems.

29.   The evidence of this, he said, was the dossier of news clippings and other papers documenting his activism that the immigration authorities had acknowledged gathering on him.

30.   The French authorities acknowledged that the facts were more or less as the newspapers reported them and promised a more detailed explanation by the Interior Ministry later.