31.   In schools, factories and municipal offices, study groups were formed to discuss Maoist theory and participants were required to confess ideological sins.

32.   It said a working group would be formed to prepare proposals on this and other outstanding matters for the next meeting.

33.   Law enforcement has been more aggressive in recognizing hate crimes, and regional hate-crime advisory groups have been formed.

34.   Militia leaders in Michigan and other states say their groups were formed solely to defend their communities against the federal government.

35.   Or to be more explicit, the group is formed, then comes a period of storms and a great deal of compromising and push and pull.

36.   Seven working groups were formed at the previous ministers summit in Denver last year.

37.   Several pension funds, including the Geneva public employees fund, recently formed a group called the Ethos Fund to stimulate long-term investor value.

38.   Some party members were so disgusted and embarrassed by the squabbling that they formed a group called Virginians for Warner.

39.   Summers and others said the mere fact that those groups have been formed is progress.

40.   The companies can be unrelated, although a controlling group must be formed by the end of the auction to make the sale valid.