31.   As Gervase explores a small conference room, his torch triggers the sprinkler system.

32.   As soon as the employee arrived, she was called into a conference room where Anderson, accompanied by Warden, dismissed her.

33.   As the diplomats talked in a hushed conference room in the Council of Ministers building, mortar fire could be heard like a distant door slamming.

34.   As Albright and Arafat met in a conference room, photographers urged them to shake hands.

35.   As people began falling from above the conference room, Rosenblum broke his preternatural calm, his wife, Jill, recalled.

36.   As the final countdown neared, employees in the Rocketdyne conference room glued their eyes to the television screen with the intensity of fans rooting for the home team.

37.   As he set up in a Microsoft conference room, Boies said he was apprehensive as he got ready to face the powerful corporate chief.

38.   As if to underscore their separation, the two sides met with mediators Sunday in conference rooms on opposite sides of the hotel pool.

39.   At a smaller hotel conference room, chess instructor Matt Guthrie was dishing up analysis for a smattering of other spectators.

40.   At a small midtown Manhattan law firm, the managing partner had invited the entire office to the conference room to watch the O. J. Simpson verdict.