21.   Monetary authorities also asked banks not to clamp down on investors who may have borrowed money to buy stocks that have since fallen.

22.   National authorities asked an administrative court Tuesday to invalidate the measure as unconstitutionally discriminatory.

23.   On Monday, Afghan postal authorities asked for permission to fly at least twice a week to collect and deliver mail to this landlocked country.

24.   PBCC personnel director Ellen Grace said the authorities then asked the college to postpone action until they finished investigating.

25.   Spokesmen for the two cellular companies servicing the Fort Davis region, Cellular One and Plateau Cellular, said the authorities have not asked them to cut cell communications.

26.   The attorney general has the authority ask a federal court in Washington to appoint an independent counsel to lead an investigation separate from the Justice Department.

27.   The authorities have not asked Ostapchuk for his views, but he has taken away a few lessons from the ordeal.

28.   The authority has asked Long to speed up his expected appeal, but he has made no decision yet, according to Jim Miller, his property manager.

29.   The authority then asked permission to collect the tax to build the new system linking the subway to Kennedy.

30.   The local authorities asked the survivors to register with the police to help determine the number of those killed and missing.