21.   The House twice passed packages of tax cuts and help for the unemployed last fall, but efforts to forge a compromise broke down in the closely divided Senate.

22.   The Massachusetts Senate passed the package.

23.   The Philippine Congress has promised to pass the package before the year ends.

24.   They generously passed the package along to anybody who might be standing around.

25.   They note, with some justification, that the Federal Reserve was shepherding down interest rates well before the deficit package was ever passed by Congress.

26.   Parliament is expected to pass the package later this month.

27.   - The Legislature passed a package of bills designed to cut school violence.

28.   A Senate committee Thursday unanimously passed a package of bills that would outlaw the sale of hand guns without child safety features.

29.   After five days of talks, a consultative body of labor, management and government representatives agreed Tuesday to pass a package of reform bills through Parliament in February.

30.   After five days of talks, a consultative body of labor, management and government representatives agreed to pass a package of bills through Parliament in February.