31.  A Boeing spokesman, Paul Guse, would not comment on specific cases, but said the company has strict hiring procedures to avoid discrimination.

32.  A detailed report, including confidential patient medical records and specific cases reviewed by regulators, was forwarded to Cigna in February.

33.  AirTran said Delta this summer escalated its activities, though it cited no specific cases.

34.  Agents prevented unfolding plots on occasion, but only if investigators stumbled across a lead in the course of a specific case.

35.  Bush has avoided lecturing or making public demands on specific cases.

36.  But Barton declined to respond to a series of questions from panel members about specific cases of apparently deceptive sweepstakes mailings.

37.  But in a deposition, Carbone could not supply specific cases of contraband found in strip searches.

38.  But he said he did not raise the specific cases of people in detention, preferring to deal with the subject generically.

39.  But I have a specific case I have to deal with now.

40.  But various procedural problems in specific cases have so far stymied hopes for high court review.