1.   And even now, others along the watershed, including some officials from neighboring Middlesex County, still question the need for the levees and pumping stations.

2.   And the group, which included officials like Rep. Charles Rangel of Manhattan and Mayor Anthony Masiello of Buffalo, deliberately avoided discussing potential candidates for the party chairmanship.

3.   As a result, few people outside the industry, including government officials, have seen the contracts or know the magnitude of the money involved.

4.   At the funeral of Miss Bich, hundreds of people, including high-ranking officials, lined up to light incense and file past her casket.

5.   A group of Birmingham business leaders, including Chamber of Commerce officials, had been in Tokyo during the Trailways attack for a Rotary Club gathering.

6.   A dozen others, including officials, riders and doctors, have also been placed under formal investigation.

7.   A more recent foundaton-sponsored trip to Japan included officials from Baltimore, Little Rock, Ark., Los Angeles, Newark and Columbia, S.C.

8.   But Haseltine and others, including officials at General Motors, say there are privacy issues that have kept the technology from advancing as rapidly as it could have.

9.   But locally they found that most residents, including city officials, supported the Park Service plans as a lever to redevelop the historic district.

10.   But others, including officials at the Federal Reserve, were worried that consumer spending could rebound and, therefore, the economy cold actually grow faster.