21.   Gartner Group analysts and Dell have since tried to clarify their statements, insisting their comments were taken out of context.

22.   Government officials and advisers to the sale said today his comments were taken out of context, and that the sales will go ahead as scheduled next week.

23.   Gore and his advisers almost certainly would have taken any comments from Bradley in the closing days of the Iowa campaign and attempted to portray them as negative.

24.   He was certainly irritated with subsequent media reports that he said took his comments out of context.

25.   HMOs took the comments as constructive criticism, saying they are already looking at ways to improve care and reduce red tape.

26.   I take his comments seriously, but I also try to focus on the message and not the delivery.

27.   In its report, ABC took his comments out of context and portrayed his employees as overworked, incompetent and shoddy workers, the suit claims.

28.   Instead, the federal agency will revise its proposal, taking the comments into account, then issue another proposed rule for comment.

29.   Investors took weekend comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as a sign the Fed may soon cut interest rates.

30.   It was hard to take the comment seriously.