31.   Officials credit the facility with helping reduce crime and helping to provide educational opportunities to children.

32.   Officials credited the work of the air force reserve helicopter pilot with saving lives.

33.   Pataki administration officials credit their initiatives for the change in course.

34.   State and local officials credit a wide range of efforts at educating teens about sex, including providing them with information about contraceptives.

35.   State and local officials credit the pregnancy decline to a wide range of efforts at educating teens about sex, including giving them free contraceptives.

36.   Still, international weightlifting officials credit the Cologne lab for a threefold increase in positive test results last year in the sport, long tainted by steroid use.

37.   Sun officials credit Jabbar with playing a key role in the growth of the computer unit.

38.   The off-ice officials inadvertently credited him with one last week in Dallas, but it was reversed and given to defenseman Oleg Tverdovsky.

39.   Tour officials also credit Woods as a primary reason for shifting demographics, higher television ratings and rising purses.

40.   Transit officials credit Forman with bringing order to what had been a chaotic rebuilding program.