81.   His unconventional proposals mystified Feinstein and her top advisers.

82.   His biggest break, he said, came when a top adviser to Bill Clinton showed the president a column Cherny wrote for the Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

83.   His boss is Karen P. Hughes, a top Bush adviser and longtime loyalist from Texas who directs communications and media strategy and keeps tight rein on the messengers.

84.   His small, tight-knit circle of top advisers has avoided the leaks, backbiting and controversy that have occasionally convulsed the Gore campaign.

85.   His threat was not lost on the White House, said George Stephanopolous, a top adviser to Clinton, and the administration began thinking through its own strategy.

86.   If he approves a limited amnesty program of the kind his top advisers have proposed, she said she would vote for Bush next time.

87.   In a nervous huddle in the Kremlin, Yeltsin and his top advisers decided to risk not responding.

88.   In addition, her campaign has lost three top advisers, including two spokesmen who left in the last month.

89.   In an interview, Charles Gargano, a top economic adviser to Pataki, said extensive managerial changes could be coming.

90.   In public remarks Wednesday, Clinton and his top advisers said they recognized that security reasons made it unwise for Turkey to declare publicly when the operation would end.