11.   One benefit of a formal ethics inquiry is that Torricelli presumably would be required to square these differing accounts at a public hearing.

12.   Rep. Peter Deutsch, D-Fla., said he would probably call for a congressional ethics inquiry.

13.   That trip, paid for by a Revlon executive whom Safir has described as a family friend, is now the subject of a city ethics inquiry.

14.   The nomination has been stalled for nearly a year by ethics inquiries.

15.   They squabbled with the Republicans over whether the timetable for the ethics inquiry was being rushed to get the charges against Gingrich off the table quickly.

16.   Three years after being brought in to straighten out the troubled Los Angeles Police Department, Chief Willie L. Williams has himself become embroiled in a broadening ethics inquiry.

17.   Ultimately, a Senate ethics inquiry concluded that McCain had exercised poor judgment but had not violated any rules.

18.   Also present was Ken Duberstein, a former White House chief of staff and vice-chairman of an ethics inquiry that criticized the IOC.

19.   Coles, named in the Salt Lake City ethics inquiry for treating site visits like vacations, was recommended for a severe censure by the IOC last week.

20.   IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch said the ethics inquiry would expand to other cities only if hard evidence of corruption was presented.