41.   And government agencies are worried about their own practices.

42.   And advertising agencies are risk-averse.

43.   And his hapless agency is the Constitutional Defense Council, pet project of our fiercest warrior against government waste, Gov. Fife Symington.

44.   And if anything, some law-enforcement officials say, the agency has been too timid.

45.   And a merged agency would be more administratively efficient and could better deal with changes within the electric and natural gas industries, he said.

46.   And a new cycle of acquisitions has begun, in which the large multinational agencies are buying up the smaller breakaway shops.

47.   And last year, the General Accounting Office warned that federal regulatory agencies were not prepared to deal with uncertainties that haunt the trading activity.

48.   And some companies say the agency is more interested in ferreting out evidence of discrimination than in helping companies devise plans to diversify their work force.

49.   And state agencies have been ban from hiring non-Thais as consultants.

50.   And the agency is for the first time seeking accreditation with the Laboratory Accreditation Board of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors.