41.   On Tuesday, Dominican election officials finally declared him the winner, but Washington has charged that the election was tainted by fraud and has called for new elections.

42.   Officials have already declared that to be virtually impossible, and the State Department has asked Congress to extend the deadline.

43.   Palestinian officials declared a crisis in the negotiations, saying their leader, Yasser Arafat, whom Barak walked to his car, had left in anger.

44.   Over the past few days our officials have declared that we are ready to help and join this movement under the auspices of the United Nations.

45.   Program officials declared that the effort had helped stave off the threat of a widespread famine.

46.   Several weeks ago, county officials declared a state of emergency as drought conditions worsened.

47.   Seven months after federal antitrust officials declared they had reined in the mighty Microsoft Corp., they saw their work rebuffed by a hard-nosed judge.

48.   She said Davis stood by her when a school board official declared not one brick of the school would be changed.

49.   Smallpox had just become the first disease in history to be eradicated, and government health officials declared the demise of infectious diseases.

50.   So far, officials are declaring the Escambia experiment a success.