21.   As part of the package, five private groups will receive money to continue working toward ending abusive working conditions faced by children.

22.   Askins, of Fort Worth, may never see the master of arts level diploma he has worked toward for four years.

23.   At that moment, Brinker said, she decided to spend the rest of her life working toward a cure.

24.   Barnum found himself absorbed in his studies, content to be working toward a communications degree if not toward a starting job.

25.   Author R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. has spent a great deal of time working toward the goals of equality and fairness, and he says business still falls short.

26.   Beyond that, diplomats must work toward a more lasting solution based on the voluntary and safe return home of most Hutu refugees to Rwanda.

27.   Belinda Smith said her friend Shannon was taking classes on the Internet, working toward a certificate in medical administration, until she got pregnant with Kylie Rae.

28.   Boland, who first proposed legislation ending the veto, was already working toward that end.

29.   Both involved unprecedented gatherings of scientists who worked toward a once unthinkable goal in a brief time.

30.   Both parties have rejected luxury-tax proposals and accused the other side of failing to negotiate with the notion of working toward a new agreement.