21.  It is tempting, Ms. Valdes acknowledged, to blame traditional Latin American machismo for the negative official response to those passages.

22.  Microsoft will file its official response Tuesday.

23.  New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman gave the official Republican response to Clinton and she acquitted herself with charm and intelligence.

24.  On a continent where the common official response to the AIDS plague is denial, Bishop Joseph Sikongo speaks with rare candor.

25.  Official responses were being prepared.

26.  Our official response, regardless of our personal preferences, has been that this law is simply impractical, simply unimplementable.

27.  Republicans underscored the new order by recruiting Whitman, a Washington outsider, to deliver their official response.

28.  Republicans tapped Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, a former star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma and the only black Republican in Congress, for their official response.

29.  Serbia has attempted to undermine the meeting by delaying its official response to the OSCE election report until next week.

30.  Sharon met with his security cabinet Wednesday night to decide on an official response.