21.  The dilemma for local public officials is that once the game of economic development begins, it is difficult to avoid playing.

22.  The intent of the change was to give local officials more power to make Decisions.

23.  The only ones with a steady income were teachers, storekeepers and local officials.

24.  There, local officials allowed Republican activists to take away several hundred forms and complete them.

25.  Thereafter they learnt to invoke the name of the head of the secret police when dealing with obdurate local officials.

26.  Throughout the Mekong delta, local officials who disdained Tu Duc nevertheless quit the provincial administration rather than submit to alien rule.

27.  She fixes her steel-blue eyes on an unsuspecting local official.

28.  Local officials say the flood waters have subsided.

29.  Several local officials are in jail on charges of colluding with the Mafia.

30.  Sentences for assisting separatist terrorists were to be doubled, while local officials were given the right to ban strikes and shop-closing protests.