21.   None of these dismal facts has been disproved, but new developments have made them seem suddenly a little less ironclad.

22.   On the other hand, compact developments could simply make room for even more compact developments.

23.   One recent development has made analysts point to Alcatel as the favored bidder.

24.   Over the last three years, these developments have made the fast-growing Sun International among the dominant gaming companies on the East Coast.

25.   Should future developments make it appropriate to invoke the procedures of the Act, I will do so without hesitation.

26.   Still, one recent development makes analysts point to Alcatel as the favored bidder.

27.   That development is making some employees more willing to jump to new companies.

28.   That development made for a bigger bang than the dried bamboo sticks their ancestors knocked together to use as noisemakers.

29.   That development made his address to the team Wednesday, emotional though it was, something less than a farewell of the crocodile-tears variety.

30.   The absence of alarming inflation developments makes recent interest rate jumps curious, because interest rates are normally driven by inflationary expectations.