11.   At Columbia, Gore was introduced by Robert E. Rubin, the former treasury secretary.

12.   Blair and his treasury secretary, Gordon Brown, have insisted that they cannot give in to the specific demands that they cut the fuel tax.

13.   A world in which Bill Gates is the ultimate businessman is a world in which Larry Summers can be treasury secretary.

14.   Alan Greenspan will remain Federal Reserve Board chairman regardless of who wins, and Richard Rubin is seen as a safe bet to remain treasury secretary, analysts said.

15.   Brazil plans to continue lengthening the maturity of its domestic debt, the treasury secretary said.

16.   But Jones will have to contend with businessman Bill Simon Jr., son of the former Nixon treasury secretary.

17.   But the administration would leave all direct authority over the IRS in the hands of the treasury secretary.

18.   But Roger C. Altman, a former deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, who now runs an investment firm, said that Democrats should not be worried.

19.   But the next treasury secretary faces formidable problems, and the confirmation hearings Wednesday only scratched the surface, with the senators largely concentrating on domestic issues.

20.   But the problem is that government is not Alcoa, and the treasury secretary does not have the freedom of a corporate boss.