41.   At the FBI, a representative would not discuss individual cases.

42.   At the urging of Friedman, the settlement contains a provision allowing a panel of retired judges to review settlement claims in individual cases of discrimination.

43.   Both told him that to bring an individual case against a giant like Texaco would be long, expensive and probably fruitless.

44.   A possible solution, according to some lobbyists, would be for the Republicans to accept a system that would assign qualified reviewers randomly to individual cases.

45.   A spokeswoman for the agency said that confidentiality laws prevented it from commenting on his situation or any other individual case.

46.   A Treasury spokesman said the department was weighing individual cases seeking the retirement benefits but noted there are differences in the duties performed by inspectors and agents.

47.   Both conservancy and city officials could give workers, public or private, marching orders as individual cases warranted.

48.   But as Frattini is now trying to prove with an inter-governmental commission, the problem goes deeper than individual cases.

49.   But analysts said that the back-to-back losses by Philip Morris in individual cases suggested that cigarette makers were likely to see more defeats and escalating awards.

50.   But even if that verdict is upheld, smokers will still have to win individual cases on their own to obtain a share of the settlement.