21.   Afterward, the restaurant owner took out his trumpet and an Englishman who lives in the area pulled out a slide trombone.

22.   But more recently, several lawyers -- some involved in the union, some not -- began wondering if the owners would take that legal step.

23.   But not every loft owner takes the trouble to fly in master craftsmen from the five-generations-old Fantini Mosaici company in Milan.

24.   But nothing is assured once a new owner takes control.

25.   But the owners are taking considerable heart in what the union did not obtain through the NLRB ruling.

26.   But the BMW owners took pictures of the wheels, the gearshifts, the engines.

27.   But there is political momentum building in Ottawa to lift ownership restrictions and let a foreign owner take a controlling stake.

28.   By then, the owners had taken charge of the facility and have since paid off half the debt themselves.

29.   Commodities that are delivered locally are still taxed easily when the owner takes possession.

30.   Contrary to their posture in previous congressional attempts to mess with their coveted exemption, the owners clearly are taking this effort seriously.