21.   Senior United States officials said they were not negotiating with the Taliban, but simply repeating the message that they should get rid of Mr. bin Laden.

22.   That repeated a message Powell had earlier sent on his African tour to the president of Zimbabwe.

23.   The deliberate message was repeated throughout the day by several administration officials, though curiously, not by Bush himself, who did not make himself available to reporters.

24.   The disembodied voice, shorn of inflection, repeats the message thousands of times a day to millions of passive subway riders, ever mindful of the gap.

25.   The message was repeated by presidential spokesman Sergio Amaral on Monday night.

26.   The message is repeated by a pair of employees in the entry vestibule.

27.   The message could be repeated until the phone owner has time to walk to the museum lobby and take the call.

28.   The message is repeated throughout the year at other events.

29.   The pope urged the United States to remain engaged in the world, and Clinton asked him to repeat that message to the American people.

30.   The secretary agreed, repeating the message he delivered in Washington on Sunday.