21.   A shelf registration permits a company to register securities in advance and then sell them as financing needs arise.

22.   Abrams got the flexibility he needed as a parent and full-time software scientist by taking an Internet class from DigitalThink Inc., a San Francisco online training company.

23.   Al Adamson was a film artist of the class that most film buffs ignore, except when needed as objects of fashionable contempt.

24.   Aidan Quinn gives the film the emotional core it needs as a passionate but bottled-up man, and Farrelly gives the film its romantic wings.

25.   But boxing has never needed him as much.

26.   But a more formalized management structure is needed as the companies move toward common platforms for building cars.

27.   But it needs him as a golfer, not a clown.

28.   But they said intensified surveillance was needed as a cautionary move.

29.   But you never know when Beezer might be needed as a spare part for the machine.

30.   But, between you and me, do we really need as objectifying a display of flesh as the one ABC intends to show tonight?