1.   Anxious American officials eager to hustle the general away before the scheduled return on Saturday of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide negotiated the real estate deal.

2.   At the same time, the Gaza project has been embraced by Israeli officials eager to demonstrate some visible progress and flexibility in the talks.

3.   But the discussion Thursday about the problem quickly degenerated into finger-pointing by federal and state officials eager to score political points.

4.   Copies of it were made available by diplomats and officials eager to see its conclusions made public before a debate on Iraq resumes Wednesday.

5.   Details of the reports to be issued on Monday were provided by officials eager to focus attention on the abuses being investigated by Senator Grassley.

6.   Egyptian officials eager for cash revenues say that such exhibitions increase tourism by attracting museum patrons to Egypt itself.

7.   That set off a stampede by other ambitious officials eager to lay claim to various patches of cyberspace.

8.   The enormous sum has Gaffney and other Suffolk officials eager, if not desperate, to get relief in the larger plan for replacing LILCO.

9.   The proposed Durst building may have special appeal to state and city officials eager to keep financial-industry companies in the city.

10.   There has been speculation in Washington that the tribunal was delaying its indictment of Milosevic at the request of American officials eager to work out a peace settlement.