21.   At that point, American and Palestinian officials were meeting to discuss the latest stumbling block, this one raised by the United States.

22.   Bank officials are meeting foreign investors in London, Edinburgh, Singapore and Hong Kong and should know by tomorrow how much they can raise abroad, he said.

23.   Austin said airline officials had met with FAA investigators who were looking into the performance of local FAA officials.

24.   Beth Israel officials also met with him to discuss setting up a nurse-midwives program at the clinic.

25.   Before the landfill opened, town officials met at the firehouse.

26.   Boeing officials have met with the union every day, according to Conte, and they decided to take Sunday morning off to meet family obligations and other needs.

27.   Boeing and European antitrust officials have been meeting through the weekend to try to find terms acceptable to both parties.

28.   -- Daiwa officials met with Ministry of Finance regulators four times in August in the weeks before the scandal was revealed to U.S authorities and the public.

29.   A consular official met with Shanghai police in the afternoon to find out more about the case and seek a meeting with Chen.

30.   A senior American official met with President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan to discuss ways to reduce such infiltration.