41.   McCain aides insist that Gavin and others from Patton Boggs had nothing to do with the drafting of the larger legislation.

42.   Moreover, his aides insist that he is serious when he says he is serious.

43.   Mrs. Bush will leave policymaking to the president, her aides insist, while using the bully pulpit to share her own passions for reading and teaching.

44.   Nothing, White House aides insist, could be as bad as late January, when the Lewinsky accusations first crashed over them.

45.   One Wilson aide insists the governor is unlikely to be deterred from a presidential bid by something as transitory as rampaging floodwaters.

46.   Publicly, Gore aides insist that all is well.

47.   Rogan aides insist that Schiff is the driving force behind any discussion of impeachment.

48.   Reno may be the genuine article, as her aides insist, but she is also savvy enough to have cultivated the image.

49.   Senior administration policy aides insisted that the president intended no change in policy or emphasis.

50.   These aides insisted that his new approach did not mark a strategic shift.