21.   Another senior administration official criticized Democrats for feeding what the official described as the latest Washington hysteria.

22.   Army officials described it then as a worst-case scenario.

23.   Arafat took the podium amid security measures that some Harvard officials described as unprecedented.

24.   Army officials described the shift as a matter of fairness, since active Army units generally deploy from their home posts for only six-months.

25.   ASNE program officials later described the session as a kind of experiment.

26.   At both targets, they encountered what officials described as light resistance.

27.   At a news conference in Brooklyn on Wednesday, federal and city officials described the crimes in the indictment in tones of outrage.

28.   At that session, Army officials described the anthrax in the letter as highly concentrated and finely milled.

29.   Aviation-industry officials describe him as informal, exuberant, forward-thinking.

30.   Based on the meeting Tuesday with the crew members detained on Hainan Island, Bush administration officials described the plane as damaged far more severely than they originally thought.