31.   Government officials still claim they were.

32.   Hospital officials claimed the Haner babies are the sixth surviving sextuplets in the world and only the second in the United States.

33.   HUD officials claim the Blute bill is unnecessary.

34.   If the weight of being nonwhite has so little effect, as UGA officials claim, why use it at all, considering the controversy about racial preferences?

35.   In Arizona, corrections officials claimed that short staffing contributed to a November assault of a nurse by six inmates in a Phoenix prison.

36.   In the latest chapter of the long-running battle over the Elgin marbles, Greek officials claimed a victory Monday.

37.   Industry officials claim that gap hurts more than just the electric companies.

38.   IOC officials claimed that the U.S. Olympic Committee had covered up positive tests of its athletes, a charge the USOC denied.

39.   Israeli officials recently claimed that the Palestinian Authority systematically discriminated against its Christian population.

40.   It noted that a senior police official claimed that independent reviewers had examined those processes four times, but the department never provided copies of those reports.