11.   Other Democrats gave harsher assessments of the Republican track record.

12.   Other neighbors gave similar assessments, although some said they were troubled that he often liked to shoot guns at night.

13.   Republican budget negotiators yesterday gave downbeat assessments of prospects for a balanced-budget agreement between the White House and Republicans in Congress.

14.   Reproductive specialists will police their own to make sure that prospective parents are given realistic assessment of their chances of conception, he said.

15.   Some of his top advisers gave dour assessments Friday of the impact of such a NATO move.

16.   They will probably await a detailed breakdown of the areas to be transferred before giving an assessment.

17.   A palace statement said Philippine peace negotiator Howard Dee gave this assessment to President Fidel Ramos shortly after returning to the Philippines from Utrecht, in the Netherlands.

18.   Cardinal Edward Cassidy of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews gave the assessment in prepared remarks to the American Jewish Committee on Wednesday.

19.   Despite the secrecy stipulation, he said, the central bank was not restricted from giving its assessment of the overall banking industry.

20.   Hunt officials could not be immediately reached to give an assessment of the damage.