51.   Officials also claim workers could reap benefits from the change, because it could create new jobs at the aerospace giant.

52.   Officials have claimed in the past that Khattab, reportedly a Jordanian, was dead, but the reports always proved false.

53.   Officials claim that a scheme to help private banks clean up their balance sheets is at last starting to work.

54.   Officials there have asked the United States to provide the names of anyone Owl Securities officials claim to have bribed.

55.   Palestinian officials claimed the move challenged their authority over the Muslim holy sites and their eventual aim to control east Jerusalem as the capital of an independent state.

56.   Palestinian officials claim Israel controls and is withholding access and usage of water from the Palestinians.

57.   Park officials claim to be helpless.

58.   Police officials first claimed self-defense.

59.   Refusing to be identified, one Pentagon official claimed that the officer in charge of maintaining those logs was on sick leave at the time.

60.   Postal officials claimed that hundreds of government checks were being picked up by a stream of pedestrians from Mexico who had mailboxes on the U.S. side.