51.  A major reason the smuggling situation has become so desperate, Jiang pointed out, is that many of the worst offenders are party officials and army officers.

52.  A fiercely independent politician, Dunn broke ranks with party officials regularly and publicly.

53.  A party official there said the forms were taken to local party headquarters, where the missing numbers were added.

54.  According to McDermott, powerful party officials from both sides raised a stink about the sealed off elections office.

55.  Acknowledging that he has been relatively unknown among state party officials, Gilmore said he was trying to spend time with them at the meeting in Boston.

56.  After defeating an establishment Republican whom party officials considered more electable in part because unlike Scarborough she favored abortion rights, Scarborough easily won the general election.

57.  After founding Vitral, he was told by party officials that he could no longer work as an agronomist.

58.  After relenting on the list, the party officials wanted the right to preapprove any Lamm mailings.

59.  Afterward, she was to meet with other party officials and campaign workers in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

60.  Already the Alabama letter has raised tens of thousands of dollars, party officials said.