1.   The Minnesota government change leaders avoided this mistake.

2.   Although U.S. officials consider Milosevic largely responsible for much of the warring that has ravaged the region, the Yugoslav leader has avoided any legal accountability.

3.   For all their criticism of bureaucrats and calls for a smaller government, Republican leaders have studiously avoided offending federal workers by suggesting that they not be paid.

4.   Leaders avoid the shortcuts where ethics are abbreviated.

5.   On Syria, a topic that many analysts predicted the two leaders would avoid at the meeting, Netanyahu issued a blunt warning.

6.   Republican leaders avoided criticism of Helms until they could talk to him.

7.   Senate Democrats will push two proposals that House Republican leaders avoided.

8.   Solomon said the Republican leaders will avoid bringing massive spending bills to the floor in the last few days of a session.

9.   Some Italian business leaders have studiously avoided doing business with Mediobanca.

10.   The leaders also carefully avoided the question of which nation should lead the world out of an economic slowdown.