21.   New gambling halls over the next few years will intensify competition and crimp profits, analysts and investors say.

22.   Plans for a new hall were drawn up during the music directorships of Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti and now Wolfgang Sawallisch.

23.   Plans for a new hall, meanwhile, seemed to have ground to a halt.

24.   Ralph Appelbaum, the designer who worked with scientists to create the new halls, said natural history museums, including the American, had slipped in recent years.

25.   Several public officials involved in the project said the new hall would be designed with the latest in broadcast, communications and recording technology.

26.   She was also generous to performance groups, contributing toward a new hall for the San Francisco Symphony.

27.   Some music critics, especially local ones, raved about the acoustics of the new hall.

28.   That episode shocked city officials and corporate donors into agreeing to build a new hall especially for musicals.

29.   The design includes a new ticketing hall, two blocks long, housed beneath a dramatic, curving space frame of metal and glass.

30.   The immediate problem is a shortage of money, not only for acquisitions but also for construction of a second new hall.