1.   Her comments came a day before the Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on Internet taxation.

2.   His comments came as investors are keeping a close watch on emerging markets in Latin America.

3.   His comments came as he called for a broad national debate on education, drugs, taxes and retirement benefits.

4.   His comments came as investors keep a close watch on emerging markets in Latin America.

5.   His comments came as NYNEX Corp. stockholders in New York voted today to approve the takeover.

6.   His comments came as traders awaited a batch of economic reports scheduled for release next week.

7.   His comments came as U.N. surveyors arrived in Baghdad to map out eight presidential palace sites that Saddam has placed off-limits to U.N. arms inspectors.

8.   His comments came as Cortines was being urged behind the scenes by Mrs. Gresser to reconsider the resignation he had submitted that same day.

9.   His comments came as he wound up a two-day fact-finding mission to North Korea on Tuesday with former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn.

10.   The comments came as politicians in the administration of President Boris Yeltsin have begun to advertise their willingness to negotiate with the leaders of the breakaway Chechen republic.