1.   In their last weekly meeting before the summer recess the commissioners wrangled over the final wording of the document.

2.   Council members spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution.

3.   But he said no one had yet seen the final wording of the rule to be passed Wednesday.

4.   Following the close of testimony, lawyers addressed the final wording of instruction that Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon will give to the jury.

5.   Moments before, even amid media reports that a deal was at hand, the agreement threatened to unravel over final wording of a few critical sections.

6.   Officials insist that as late as Monday afternoon agreement was near on final wording for a bill jammed with conditions to answer the complaints of Democratic and Republican critics.

7.   On Tuesday, lawmakers appointed members of a House-Senate conference committee to begin deciding the final wording of the education bill.

8.   Separately, negotiators began work on the final wording of a settlement proposal under which the federal government could regulate nicotine, people familiar with it said.

9.   The House and Senate are close to agreeing on final wording in a foreign aid legislation that would suspend aid to the Palestinian Authority for three months.

10.   Britain, which chaired the meeting, insisted the final wording must also include some commitment to fighting unemployment.