41.   City officials have offered assurances that the treatments are safe.

42.   City officials have offered the post of Boston Housing Authority administrator to the public housing chief in Winston-Salem, N.C., according to City Hall sources.

43.   Cuban officials offered no details of the proposals that Alarcon presented to officials here before flying back to New York on Thursday afternoon.

44.   Despite the financial problems, a Clinton administration official offered assurance that bankrupt nursing homes are not falling down in their care.

45.   Elected officials also have offered help.

46.   European officials have offered relief assistance for victims of the violence, but Algeria has rejected it.

47.   European officials offered no new agenda for turning around a slowdown that has already led to a slide in the value of the new European currency, the euro.

48.   Federal officials have offered their own compromise.

49.   Federal, state and local officials offer many explanations for the disparities.

50.   Federal law enforcement officials offered a muted response to the findings, most of which won unanimous approval from the bipartisan Senate subcommittee.