111.   People used to say the hands are what gave him so much control, what enabled him to keep the club on line longer than anyone before or since.

112.   Polls showed voters inclined to reelect president Bill Clinton while giving Republicans control of the national legislature and a majority of statehouses.

113.   President Bush courts influential incoming Senate leaders, including James Jeffords of Vermont, whose defection from the GOP is giving Democrats control of the Senate.

114.   President Bush courts influential incoming Senate leaders, including James Jeffords of Vermont, whose defection from the GOP is giving Democrats control.

115.   Political analysts expect several weeks of intense horse-trading as Chen and the Nationalists maneuver to put together coalitions with smaller parties to give them control over the Legislature.

116.   Reformers had hoped that giving more control over education to state governments would help improve the system.

117.   Republicans were given control of Congress because the public was alarmed at the big-government Clinton proposals.

118.   Sen. James Jeffords said Friday he has no regrets about leaving the Republican Party last year even though his defection gave control of the Senate to the Democrats.

119.   She was hired last September, two months before elections gave Republicans control of Congress and allowed her husband to rise to the speakership.

120.   Since employees are given control of their stock gradually over several years, they may have more of an incentive to resist job offers from other firms.