1.   It also limits the ability of agency heads to compete successfully for high-skilled senior talent.

2.   Agency heads have been instructed to work within existing budgets and no extra funds have been granted for energy-saving equipment and renovation.

3.   And not being in the Cabinet does not mean an agency head has been cut off.

4.   Agency heads balked at ceding their money and power to an unproven entity.

5.   Bush apparently wants to deal with those agency heads directly.

6.   Byrd has been complaining for weeks that Ridge, as a presidential adviser and not a Senate-confirmed agency head, cannot be compelled to testify to Congress.

7.   Cabinet officials and agency heads are lucky if the word on Bush policy filters down to them.

8.   Gore thinks the threat is being countered by an investigating team headed by our diplomat Frank Wisner and their space agency head, Yuri Koptev.

9.   He can direct his agency heads to stop dealing with paid intermediaries.