21.   In other countries, like Chile, such commissions have simply taken testimony from victims in private.

22.   In other court action Monday, Friel took testimony dealing with a police report Perez wrote three years ago to the day.

23.   In the last few weeks, they said, the investigation has grown increasingly serious, with a grand jury issuing subpoenas and taking testimony.

24.   Investigators have continued to search for a weapon used in the case, even as testimony was being taken in the preliminary hearing.

25.   It was Kennedy-Powell who took their testimony at face value rather than stir controversy by suppressing the most damning evidence in the case of the century.

26.   Justice plans to take testimony on behalf of inmates and the state through next week before deciding whether to retain his oversight over the prison system.

27.   Lawyers in the Greenberg case took testimony from Keith Brigley, who was an associate director at Bear Stearns Clearing Corp. for roughly seven years until last year.

28.   Last month, the FTC held the third in a series of public hearings to take testimony about on-line privacy issues, particularly as they relate to children.

29.   MacLeish is also scheduled to take pretrial testimony from Law in the Ford case Wednesday and again on Friday.

30.   More hearings were held, more testimony taken, more pressure from the industry and lawmakers who support it.