1.   At least two from the Clinton administration hope to leverage the national recognition they attained in Washington to build budding political careers.

2.   But administration officials hope that time will cool such passions.

3.   More bombs, and a few days to reflect, will change his mind, the administration hopes.

4.   The administration hopes, an official acknowledged this week, that the public will conclude that Burton is intemperate and that his inquiry is a partisan witch hunt.

5.   Negotiators Tuesday signed an agreement the Clinton administration hopes will break the logjam that has blocked major nuclear-weapons treaties in the Russian State Duma and U.S. Senate.

6.   No, he replied, suggesting the administration hopes for an internal revolt in Iran.

7.   The breakthrough is considered important to talks underway here that the Clinton administration hopes will lead to a summit meeting between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

8.   Under the planned bylaw, which the administration hopes will take effect in April, new buildings must include injection wells.