51.   Fleischer responded to that criticism by saying that administration officials made accurate statements last year about the summer threat assessments.

52.   Ford stonewalled House Judiciary Committee requests for relevant records of his conversations with Nixon but defused the criticism by volunteering to testify before his old colleagues in the House.

53.   Furberg said his team responded to the criticism by doing what is known as a meta-analysis.

54.   French troops in Mitrovica have particularly come under heavy criticism by both Serbs and ethnic Albanians.

55.   Friends have said he signed up in part to protect his father, Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee, from criticism by Republican supporters of the war.

56.   Gingrich has since backed away from that suggestion, which drew criticism by some in his own party.

57.   Hanna Nasser, the mayor of Bethlehem, rejected criticism by Palestinian factions that said the negotiators had given approval to exiling Palestinians from their homeland.

58.   He addresses criticism by trying to include everyone in government.

59.   He aims to take the edge off those criticisms by raising the threshold on property taxes, freeing thousands of families from levies on inheritances and gifts.

60.   He responded to the criticism by agreeing to forgo the advance and work for royalties.