1.   Club officials spent half an hour arguing over who had the right to wear their first strip.

2.   Although the city still had money, Congress had not authorized District officials to spend it.

3.   American officials do indeed spend much of their time telling the rest of the world what to do.

4.   And MBTA officials spent the day trying to soothe commuter anxieties, saying the subway accident rate has been halved over the last year.

5.   As the nation waited anxiously, the officials spent hours checking ballot boxes and ballot slips for any evidence of tampering or election rigging.

6.   Before converting the stock into cash, development officials spend time they could be seeking new donors trying to track down the unidentified donors.

7.   A separate law governs how former officials can spend the money.

8.   According to Grossman, company officials spent most of the day frantically calling employee friends and relatives.

9.   After city officials spent months negotiating compromises in their strict anti-smoking ordinance, a Legislative committee passed a bill Wednesday that would undo their efforts.