21.   In a major handholding effort, RadioShack service technicians would be responsible for coming directly into the home and connecting consumers to the Web.

22.   In a laboratory, technicians were able to introduce contaminants into the hydraulic fluid to make an identical unit jam, a promising sign.

23.   Instead, the economic assumptions incorporated in their agreement anticipate a small cut in the index, in keeping with a change the technicians are likely to make anyway.

24.   Johnson, the technicians union president, estimated that half the technicians were already eligible to retire or would be within three years.

25.   Lab technicians are not licensed social workers, trained detectives or alert pediatricians.

26.   Major averages are now off their peaks, but the technicians are still edgy.

27.   Other technicians were similarly pessimistic about the immediate outlook for stocks.

28.   Power was restored, but there was no technician on duty who could assure that the communications equipment had restarted properly.

29.   Second, E-check technicians were courteous, if not chatty.

30.   Snecma said its technicians were already on the spot working to find out how the cracks occurred.