21.   Clinton, as well as Daley, alluded to the difficulty of public service in the current environment of intense scrutiny by the media and public.

22.   Economists say Chirac must take advantage of the current favorable economic environment to take these difficult decisions.

23.   Even as the magazines acknowledge the stresses of the current environment, they all maintain they have what it takes to survive.

24.   Even though the current economic environment is conducive to stock investing, investors must scrutinize their purchases, the panelists said.

25.   Excite gets millions of page views per day in the current Web environment.

26.   Financial meetings are perhaps the most vulnerable in the current environment.

27.   Financial-services companies were generally strong, with analysts citing a belief that profits of these corporations will be lifted in the current environment.

28.   Given the current harsh environment, those private companies that do play by the rules and survive end up remarkably healthy, with resilient streams of revenue.

29.   He added that even in the current tense environment, he did not believe the airlines would break out of their financial competition to enhance security.

30.   He reasons that call-writing in the current environment is rational behavior only on the assumption that the bear market is almost over.