31.   Similar schemes have been uncovered in Manhattan and elsewhere in recent years.

32.   The case, the third similar scheme in recent years, continues to raise questions about how well the agency is addressing its vulnerability to corruption.

33.   The government attempted a similar scheme once before, when all the banks were government-owned.

34.   The House approved a similar scheme a week before, along with lower taxes.

35.   The investigation of hospitals complements inquiries by the Justice Department into similar schemes by privately owned laboratory companies.

36.   The order widening the FERC probe comes after the agency has asked the power companies to document whether they used trading schemes similar to Enron.

37.   The University of Illinois followed a similar scheme in releasing its wildly popular Mosaic software.

38.   To stop similar schemes from succeeding, fraud and abuse, Medicare is now designing new systems that will uncover signs of fraud and abuse.

39.   Two years ago at the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, Intel itself touted a similar scheme for Pentium computers.

40.   All similar schemes abroad have turned out to be fraudulent and collapsed.