11.  But Rangel and other black leaders said a wave of recent actions has them feeling at a loss.

12.  But recent actions in Washington give the generators incentives to hold out for a court victory giving them a pass into the spot market, Maviglio said.

13.  But some of these men wear bedroom slippers or scruffy loafers, and their uniforms are too smartly pressed to have seen any recent action.

14.  But the administration stopped short of opposing the loan outright, despite expressing anger over recent actions by Tudjman.

15.  But there should no longer be any media curiosity as to what this outstanding receiver has to say -- precisely because his recent actions spoke volumes.

16.  But today many people regard such a prospect as highly unlikely, and recent U.S. actions have not brought it any closer.

17.  By some of his recent actions and utterances, Gingrich gives the impression of having mellowed.

18.  Clinton defended his recent action against Iraq and insisted that Saddam Hussein had been inhibited by the US missile strikes.

19.  Close friends of Salinas are puzzled by his recent actions, but they say that he has long been driven by a sense of destiny.

20.  Consider the recent action in Dell Computer.