21.   Officials are also debating new rules for citizenship.

22.   Officials had debated whether to make the precise contents of the notes public, hoping to prompt new leads, but decided against it.

23.   Officials debated for more than five minutes and consulted TV monitors before determining the penalty was good for a Stanford first down.

24.   Senior Bush administration officials are debating whether to make Moussaoui the first person to be tried on terrorism charges before a military tribunal.

25.   State health officials debated for months whether they even wanted to apply for the grant money, which became available last year under the new federal welfare laws.

26.   The administration chose a relatively mild trade penalty for China as U.S. officials debated how to react to alleged Chinese shipments of nuclear-related materials to Pakistan.

27.   The bird is still on the federal endangered species list, though officials are debating whether to take it off.

28.   The ceremony took place as officials debated the security of U.S. embassies around the world.

29.   The issue that Grand Slam officials are debating with increasing fervor is whether the right players are getting seeded.

30.   The newspaper said officials are debating whether to seek a cut immediately or wait a month to see if the economy remains sluggish.