21.   Morales insists the tobacco industry will pay the lawyers.

22.   Monday, in a letter to Feeney, Frankel objected to using state funds to pay the lawyers.

23.   Ms. Brahm said she paid Buckley several thousand dollars and cannot afford to pay another lawyer to pursue the divorce.

24.   One might think a company so hard up for cash that it pays lawyers with stock would not spend money promoting the stock.

25.   Paying lawyers, by contrast, is widely viewed as a normal business expense in political and corporate life.

26.   Paying his lawyers has been a steady drain on his campaign coffers.

27.   Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., defended the principle of paying lawyers through contingency fees.

28.   She said she paid him several thousand dollars in cash and cannot afford to pay another lawyer to start over again.

29.   Since most states have now reached settlements with the industry, it will be an undetermined number of years before the lawyers are paid in full.

30.   Such devices are ordinarily used by politicians to pay their lawyers.