21.   Eric Schnapper, a civil rights specialist at the University of Washington, praised the decision as highly favorable to plaintiffs in harassment cases.

22.   Everyone, seemingly, praised the decision not to play.

23.   Environmental groups praised the decision, calling it an important protection for the grassland, marsh, reefs and barrier islands in the national parks.

24.   Federal prosecutors in New York praised the decision.

25.   Human rights groups and advocates for asylum seekers, many of whom have fled violent governments, praised the decision.

26.   In Jersey City, Mayor Bret Schundler praised the decision.

27.   Industry experts generally praised the decision by Bell Atlantic.

28.   Lawmakers generally praised the decision of Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine.

29.   Lawyers for the general, who is in the hospital for treatment of pneumonia, praised the decision and said he is too sick to ever stand trial.

30.   Leaving it to his advisers to praise the decision, Clinton devoted his own public statements to deploring the bombings and promising retribution.