The Transit Authority's initiative includes posters and frequent announcements in stations that begging is illegal on the subway, with suggestions that passengers contribute to established charities instead.

In Central Park, thousands of volunteers and city workers tended to the weary finishers, but their hearts were with the frequent announcements: "Fred is on the 21st mile.

Agents should make frequent announcements about reasons for delays, so people won't get mad.

"It just looks very odd," Mr. Jensen added, given WorldCom's frequent announcements about the importance of executives' stock ownership.

The airline industry continues to churn, with frequent announcements from start-up airlines entering the fray or expanding.

In the 2000s, although the company had seemed to be in hibernation, frequent announcements had been made of new projects.

But talks held in various African nations have led nowhere, despite the frequent announcements of breakthroughs, because the war has drawn in so many nations and factions.

But that is made more difficult by the frequent announcements that drone on, even with the convenient digital signage of the new trains.

And residents say the cable television company runs annoyingly frequent public-service-style announcements on the benefits of nuclear power.

There are frequent announcements of good intentions to simplify tax rules.