31.   Both events occurred without incident, but the threats were one reason government officials began studying ways to enhance aviation security.

32.   But he began to study the way Santa would act, speak and think.

33.   But Rumsfeld has also pressed the chiefs and secretaries of the armed services to begin studying ways to position themselves better for possible conflict in Asia.

34.   By studying the way alcohol rewires the brain, doctors can prescribe specific drugs that quell the desire for a cocktail.

35.   Chidambaram said only that he would set up an expert committee to study ways of controlling expenditure on the government that would report within four months.

36.   Clinton recently appointed Vice President Al Gore to head a commission studying ways to beef up airline security and expand the use of sophisticated bomb-detection equipment.

37.   Congress is studying ways to revamp the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

38.   Dr. Robert L. Ash, an aerospace engineering professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., is among many experts studying ways humans could make the flight.

39.   Federal and local law enforcement officials, meanwhile, continue to study ways to prevent terrorism.

40.   Finneran added that he wants to study ways to force the Massachusetts Port Authority to contribute funds toward the project.