11.   Cleland barely glanced at his prepared remarks, though eventually he made a serious point.

12.   Clinton added the denial at the end of his prepared remarks at a White House meeting arranged on short notice to talk about child care programs.

13.   Clinton, in his prepared remarks, did not address the NATO airstrike in Kosovo on Wednesday in which ethnic Albanian refugees were killed and wounded.

14.   Chernomyrdin tried to assuage that concern in prepared remarks before U.S. business people.

15.   Following are excerpts from prepared remarks by former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey for a speech on Monday at New Hampshire College in Manchester.

16.   Gramm, in prepared remarks, also sought to lure Perot supporters by targeting the excesses of big government and by lashing out at Clinton.

17.   He added nothing beyond his prepared remarks.

18.   Greenspan made no comments about the current state of the economy in his prepared remarks, which had little effect in financial markets.

19.   Greenspan, who made no comments about the current state of the economy in his prepared remarks, said the overstatement needlessly costs the government billions.

20.   He did not elaborate during his prepared remarks.