41.   Brazilian press reports have speculated central bank officials knew for years that Nacional had falsified balance sheets in order to cover up financial difficulties.

42.   Broncos officials know that time is running out for Elway to get that chance.

43.   But CARE officials know they could never get away today with doing what they did then.

44.   But French counterintelligence officials soon knew that a network of CIA officers was operating against them.

45.   But city officials do know how bad it can get.

46.   But if American officials now know how to deal with the three men, they are scarcely any closer to bridging the enormous differences that separate them.

47.   But in the past, fair officials never knew whether the winners actually ended up at a packing plant, or assumed new identities and competed for other championships.

48.   But Iranian officials also knew that if they insisted on holding the line on oil production it would be both futile and costly.

49.   But Mastro said city officials had known about the administrative charges and did not consider them serious infractions.

50.   But NATO officials also knew that they could not get such a Security Council resolution authorizing this war, because Russia and China said they would veto one.