21.   That the international group would choose a low bidder in Europe is not new.

22.   The engineer-heavy group chose a characteristically precise naming system, dividing their two-story building into four quadrants matching four quadrants of a world map.

23.   The entire group chose Hastings.

24.   The group chose Kaiser, despite the fact that the Oakland-based HMO has weathered a storm of criticism this year over problems with patient care.

25.   The group also chose to give a lifetime achievement citation, its first, to Jean-Luc Godard.

26.   The group chose the city, which is home to several conservative Christian organizations, because it wanted to present a different view of homosexuality.

27.   The group chose to sell in November because, as insiders, they are restricted from selling a month before or after corporate earnings are released, Morris said.

28.   The man who organized the reunion, a descendant on the victim side, said both groups had chosen the words to honor the dead without punishing the living.

29.   The name this loosely organized group chose for itself was not entirely nonsensical.

30.   There was no room to expand there, so the group chose the site in Orange County, which had originally been planned as a housing development.