41.   Scalapino said in a telephone interview that North Korean officials quietly proposed the visit in recent months.

42.   Security officials proposed a visitors center nearly a decade ago but arguments about its projected cost stalled the plan.

43.   State officials are also proposing cutting a mile-wide buffer zone around Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where canker has been found in backyard trees.

44.   State officials proposed trailers as a short-term solution to overcrowding since the city is hoping to build six new elementary schools in the next decade.

45.   Soto is lucky, since borough officials have proposed letting him start over a block south in what is now a fenced thicket of weeds.

46.   The bus excursions are planned at a time when state and national elected officials are proposing ways to end pricing inequities in the U.S.

47.   U.S. officials have proposed a weapons exclusion around Bihac and have said that further air attacks may be needed against Serbian nationalists near the town.

48.   When a Polish soccer official proposed the idea of citizenship so that Olisadebe could join the national team, the player thought it was a joke.

49.   Yesterday, union officials proposed that the difference between the two payment schedules be paid workers in four installments.

50.   Other Israeli officials have proposed skipping the interim phase and moving on to talks on the final status of Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.