1.   Political officials offer their views in personal appearances before the citizens.

2.   Also, administration officials offered no estimate of how many federal workers would lose their jobs.

3.   American officials have offered many hypotheses for the killing of DeVine, including the possibility that he had stumbled across army involvement in drug or timber smuggling.

4.   American officials offered a very slight tip of the hat to Iraq on Wednesday.

5.   And conservative officials offered no apology Monday for their interpretation of the medical research.

6.   And in the court system, some officials already offer literature, videotapes and counseling referrals to marriage license applicants.

7.   And in the last week, federal officials offered a legal justification for this view, while emphasizing that they had not reached any conclusions.

8.   And throughout the city, officials offered their congratulations and support for reform.

9.   And they say company officials offered inducements to keep at least one of them, Michael Riley, from going to the authorities.

10.   At the hearing, Williams said, Celgene officials offered to provide Ms. Walton thalidomide free of charge, as they do for several hundred other patients.