21.   As at many financial firms displaced from Lower Manhattan, Cantor executives are struggling to coordinate a business that is scattered across Manhattan, New Jersey and Connecticut.

22.   As Taliban units have broken and scattered across most of Afghanistan, Kunduz appears to hold one of the largest concentrations of Taliban soldiers left in Afghanistan.

23.   As the founder of a three-person consulting firm with clients scattered across the United States and Mexico, Jackee McNitt knows value when she sees it.

24.   As of late Sunday searchers have found debris and human remains scattered across the sea from the airliner but no sign of survivors.

25.   At least five black universities, scattered across the former homelands, have extremely poor graduation rates and are marked by serious debt and corruption.

26.   At midday Monday back in Kansas, combines and trucks and the crews that run them were busily harvesting fields scattered across a broad wedge of southern Kansas.

27.   Atabay said the station is his way of linking Iranian people now scattered across the globe.

28.   Away from the coast, however, hit-or-miss thunderstorms will be scattered across much of the Northeast.

29.   Bin Laden eludes the noose, and his al-Qaida network is scattered across dozens of countries.