21.   European operations had problems.

22.   Former employees describe continual pressures to use money earmarked for specific programs to offset those debts, and say programs and maintenance operations had to run on shoestrings.

23.   He apparently feared that if he exposed Nixon, some national security operations would have to be revealed.

24.   He said that the new peacekeeping operation would have only one mission.

25.   Huge chain operations have had an even worse effect.

26.   I have run across no story that I thought so valuable that a self-respecting newspaper or TV operation had to dirty itself or the news business to get it.

27.   He said the statewide operation would not have an appreciable impact either on customer service or on internal banking operations.

28.   In some cases, certain government operations actually had to be shut down briefly.

29.   In turn, those two operations had units in each of their states.

30.   Its European operations will have a small loss for the quarter because of waning demand and smaller margins.