21.   He has been cleared to play by UCLA physicians James Puffer and Gerald Finerman, Donahue said, and by an outside consultant.

22.   He has brought in an outside consultant who specializes in museum turnarounds.

23.   He said an outside consultant helped to manage the deal, which was approved by a state judge.

24.   --Hiring an outside consultant to survey air traffic controllers to delve further into the causes of incidents and ways to stop them.

25.   In its extensive investigation, state officials reviewed charts and interviewed hospital staff members, ultimately calling upon outside consultants to render judgment on the five cases.

26.   Instead of having outside consultants tell state government how to trim down, a streamlined government will result from worker-driven innovations, she said.

27.   It hired a development officer, rather than relying on outside consultants, as well as a professional finance director.

28.   It is not unusual for companies to hand off cash-management duties to an outside consultant.

29.   It is unusual, if not unprecedented, to have an outside consultant charged with that task and to have specific rankings for media outlets.

30.   It was not clear Monday whether the new advisers would be on the White House payroll or serve more informally as outside consultants.