31.   One safety advocate, Joan Claybrook, a former highway administration official who now heads the consumer group Public Citizen, acknowledged that repeal is likely.

32.   Previously, highway officials banned the practice to keep service trucks from clogging the interstates, Weinstein said.

33.   Set to testify next week are Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, federal highway safety officials, executives from the two companies and safety experts.

34.   State highway officials said this inducement has helped alleviate congestion by prompting some commuters to add to their carpools and others to join carpools for the first time.

35.   That same year, highway safety officials issued their first public warning about potential dangers of air bags to children in rear-facing infant seats.

36.   The federal highway official said that many jurisdictions are now installing signs at intersections explaining the meaning of the flashing DONT WALK.

37.   The law also would allow state highway officials to raise or lower the limit wherever they decide circumstances require.

38.   The legislation is likely to pit highway officials against mass transit advocates, environmentalists against developers, Northerners against Southerners and even bicyclists against truck drivers.

39.   The only goal of the program is to increase the level of punishment for prisoners, since state highway officials say they have no use for the crushed rock.

40.   The report said highway officials failed to catch the design problems and did not properly administer the project.