21.   Federal Reserve officials would face the embarrassing task of lowering short-term interest rates just a few months after raising them.

22.   Federal officials can face criminal prosecution for leaking wiretap information or grand jury information.

23.   Gore bellowed that Bush administration officials should face a full-bore congressional investigation into such dastardly conduct.

24.   High-level FBI officials face the prospect of criminal prosecution.

25.   In addition, state officials would face the public-health dilemma of disposing of thousands of decaying animal carcasses.

26.   In Congo, U.N. officials have faced not only operational hurdles but also orchestrated hostility against international workers, including attacks on U.N. offices in Kinshasa, the capital.

27.   In personal notes written at the time, Foster worried that administration officials would face a congressional inquiry and possibly a criminal probe of the firings.

28.   In other countries where women are generally repressed, U.N. officials have not faced similar practical consequences for their own work.

29.   In the contamination of the Hart Senate Office Building, environmental and health officials faced the need for a prompt sterilization of a huge building.

30.   In the meantime, officials will periodically face terrible choices, weighing the value of homes and farms in one place against the risk of catastrophe elsewhere.