21.  Almost all agreed that many district schools are making significant progress and that the state action will damage efforts to improve academic performance.

22.  Bush would first establish an interim plan in which drug coverage would be left to the states for four years, with Washington contributing subsidies to encourage state action.

23.  But an official with the group said that, without state action, taxes would have been even higher.

24.  But Gingrich may also allow a vote on the statute aimed at promoting state action, which would need only a simple majority for passage.

25.  But no state action was taken, state tax officials said, because they did not want to disrupt a federal criminal case against Rich.

26.  But increasingly, discrimination comes down to private behavior, rather than what judges call state action.

27.  But national insurance officials say the state actions are unjustified and fail to account for the complexities of the payment process.

28.  District officials said they were still considering measures to stop the state action.

29.  Encouraging as the state actions are, global warming requires a national response.

30.  Even in those cases, however, it was the presumed racial purpose of state action, not its stark manifestation, that was the constitutional violation.