21.   He praised the Clinton administration for never intervening in an SEC policy matter.

22.   He managed to help turn Yeltsin against his former national security adviser, Alexander Lebed, last year after Lebed and he clashed regularly on policy matters.

23.   He stuck mostly to policy matters in the visit to the communications firm outside Pittsburgh, then focused on Social Security privatization during a rally in Missouri.

24.   He tolerated opposition parties and a relatively free press that could offer opinions on policy matters.

25.   If Lay does not testify next week, the hearings will focus largely on policy matters involving accounting, financial institutions and energy markets.

26.   If Bradley often dodges questions on broad policy matters, he can be quite specific on issues that concern Iowa voters.

27.   Indeed, what little he has said about policy matters has been mostly about the pain to come if Japan is to whip itself into shape.

28.   It was while he studied political science at Harvard that he became interested in defense and in international relations as policy matters.

29.   It seems to me that subverting the Constitution on an important policy matter is worse than embarrassing everybody with your private squalor.

30.   Last March the Commerce Department named him to a private-sector advisory committee on trade policy matters involving retailing.