21.   Officials prefer a more modern image for the state, and one legislator has already proposed a bill to bar any future firing squads.

22.   Other surveillance methods are used, but race officials prefer to keep them secret.

23.   Pakistan officials prefer for the United Nations and private aid agencies to care for the refugees inside Afghanistan.

24.   School officials often prefer placing the released offenders in smaller alternative high schools for troubled youths.

25.   Submarine officials preferred the quieter and newer vessels, so the Navy stuck to its plan to replace the Los Angeles with the new attack submarine.

26.   Sun Bowl officials would prefer UCLA.

27.   Still, some American officials would prefer that Ota just get out of the way.

28.   That being the case, logic says Cotton Bowl officials would prefer a fresh face, Kansas State, as opposed to a return visit from Colorado.

29.   Suns officials preferred to stay out of the debate leading up to the game.

30.   The officials prefer their interleague games in two clusters, as they are scheduled now.