41.   In this case, residents said, city officials failed to stop impoverished people from erecting homes at the top of the hill, thus loosening the soil.

42.   INS officials failed to look at their database when changing the visa status for Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the two hijackers.

43.   Indeed, it said, Medicare officials have failed to enforce their own rules and have improperly renewed contracts with HMOs that violated the rules.

44.   Israeli officials have so far failed to persuade the denominations at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher to install an emergency exit, even though severe crowding already occurs.

45.   Japanese and U.S. officials failed to resolve the dispute after several meetings in Washington earlier this month.

46.   Its officials failed to close poorly-run banks, for instance, or to adopt measures aimed at controlling credit and inflation.

47.   Johnson insisted that he had intervened only when state and local officials failed to perform their constitutional duties.

48.   Khazar officials failed to return repeated phone calls for this story.

49.   Local officials often fail to say on the property tax bills what portion of market value is used to determine the assessment.

50.   Miss Bruneau and her parents had argued that district officials had failed to protect her as required under Title IX of that law.