21.   Although both governments strongly denied the report and market participants were skeptical of it, the franc appreciated, pushing the dollar higher.

22.   Although most Pugwash participants are specialists and often hold high advisory positions in government, they meet as private individuals.

23.   Although the participants were frustrated, they were also optimistic.

24.   Among the four teams here, undoubtedly the least likely participant is Notre Dame, which entered the tournament as the sixth seed in the East Regional.

25.   Altogether Different participants are organizations that are not only growing creatively but winning a wider audience.

26.   Among the study participants were people whose blood pressure, by chance, had just edged up enough so that they qualified.

27.   And that form of negotiating, where the participants are extremely anxious to impress their peers or not to embarrass themselves, is not an ideal negotiating model.

28.   And nearly all the participants were willing to endorse higher taxes to end deficit spending.

29.   And they make sleeping a less attractive option, unless the participants are horses.

30.   And the participants were managers of Russian nuclear facilities and Igor Khripunov, a University of Georgia political science professor, and his assistant, Mike Beck.