21.   After learning the finer techniques of Internet coding, he made the site public in May.

22.   After all, a pol intending to quit a race would hardly make public an embarrassing situation that might remain less public in the aftermath of a withdrawal.

23.   Alagem said he intended to go public in the next two years.

24.   Akamai, the Web speed-boosting venture of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and his student, went public in October.

25.   But he warned that the easy gains made in taking companies public in recent years could dry up.

26.   But Fitzgerald said he could not comment on what was in the police reports made public in court Tuesday.

27.   But Pippen and Barkley have been public in their belief the Rockets need help to contend.

28.   But shareholders in three New England technology and Internet-related companies that went public in the second quarter did catch the wave.

29.   But the dark days lasted only a few weeks, and two small New York Internet companies, Earthweb and Theglobe.com, went public in the fall.

30.   But shares of Pet Practice, which is to go public in June, are not as warm and fuzzy as they appear.