11.  A formal request for comments will be solicited in a month through the Federal Register, a publication used to give official notice of planned or proposed federal actions.

12.  A television newsman had stopped a postman to ask directions to Mount Carmel and, allegedly, told about the federal action.

13.  But applying public choice theory to federal antitrust actions runs into some logical problems.

14.  But Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., is not persuaded that the Constitution precludes more forceful federal action.

15.  But the time is not right for the kind of bold federal action that the flamboyant Roosevelt favored.

16.  California had already enacted a new speed law in anticipation of the federal action.

17.  Carollo blamed the expenditures on federal actions in the case.

18.  Clinton is expected to renew his call for federal action against smoking in the State of the Union, a White House official said.

19.  Devin Burghart of the Center for New Community, which monitors hate crimes, thinks an Ashcroft Justice Department would soft-pedal federal action on hate crimes.

20.  Eighteen states have already moved to reduce the loophole, and the burden of federal action would be minimal.