11.   The president will join a panel of sports personalities in Houston to look for lessons that athletics can teach society.

12.   The third, a Superior Court judge, Henry Ridgely, joined the panel because other state justices faced professional conflicts.

13.   When black physicians apply to join HMO panels, managed health-care corporations often say their services are not needed, Dingle said.

14.   William D. Mulholland, a retired chief executive of the Bank of Montreal, also joined the panel.

15.   Women, blacks and Hispanic lawmakers would suffer disproportionately if Democrats followed seniority and dropped the members who were last to join the panels.

16.   Baseball commissioner Bud Selig met Monday with his economic study committee, and the panel was joined by former commissioner Bowie Kuhn.

17.   Deputy speaker Ryzhkov, who belongs to Our Home Is Russia, said that his faction joined the panel to prevent Communists from fully controlling its work.

18.   He said the committee would be made up of people with recognised integrity from various fields but central bank officials would be excluded from joining the panel.

19.   He was named by Tarrin Nimmanaheminda, the finance minister, to join a panel to develop a framework to reform the Bank of Thailand.

20.   If the courts were reformed before the verdict, a civilian who has been attending the trial as a substitute judge, would join the panel.