11.   Self-confident leaders can welcome a difficult assignment.

12.   Taken together, his comments reflected a significantly more nuanced approach to handling the tense standoff between the two nations, a shift the South Korean leader clearly welcomed.

13.   The Republican leaders welcomed Clinton on Wednesday as they never have before by reacting warmly to his latest budget proposal.

14.   Though industry leaders welcomed the package, they want more radical reform.

15.   Voinovich confirmed that the Republican congressional leaders did not welcome the complaints from Republican governors.

16.   Opposition leaders cautiously welcomed the announcement, saying they were waiting to see the law enacted.

17.   Palestinian leaders welcomed the Muslim feast with prayers that peace talks will give them a capital in Jerusalem, the third holiest city to Islam.

18.   -- Japanese business leaders welcomed the agreement at the Group of Seven summit to cooperate in stabilizing currency rates.

19.   A Hungarian Jewish community leader welcomed Wednesday the new decision by German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen to compensate slave laborers used in its plants during WWII.

20.   A union leader welcomed the new bid by Towers, who was at Rover for eight years and is now chief executive of components company Concentric.