51.   The action came at a closed-door meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

52.   The action came just before Congress adjourned for the year.

53.   The action came quickly, with some federal officials learning of the transfer just hours before they were to help undertake the move, several officials said.

54.   The action came two days after the House Ways and Means Committee, which shares jurisdiction over Medicare, approved a similar bill.

55.   The action comes about a year after the death of a teenager at Boys Ranch and while a criminal case sparked by the death continues.

56.   The action comes as Intel faces increased competition from AMD and Cyrix.

57.   The action comes one day after a national chain of travel agents sued five major airlines, alleging that the carriers violated antitrust and price-fixing laws.

58.   The action on welfare comes on the second day of the Republican National Convention, which opened yesterday with a keynote speech by retired Army Gen. Colin Powell.

59.   The actions came even though the Zapatista leader who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, had said the Zapatistas would not obstruct the election.

60.   The action came after a week of intense negotiation in Vienna among the delegates to the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.