1.   The Commissioner of Inland Revenue made and confirmed assessments on the taxpayer for those years in respect of the profits from sub-licensing the films.

2.   Another moderate owner, who declined to be identified, confirmed that assessment.

3.   But they confirmed early assessments that he would seek to repair the widening schisms in society and to put together a broad-based governing coalition.

4.   Michele A. Davis, a spokeswoman for the House Republican leader, Dick Armey of Texas, confirmed that assessment.

5.   Sheila Douglas, a spokeswoman for the NAACP, confirms that assessment.

6.   Traders and brokerage industry executives confirmed that assessment.

7.   University of Massachusetts guard Carmelo Travieso looked up at the scoreboard with three minutes left in the first half, and it confirmed his assessment of the situation.

8.   A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that assessment.

9.   Alush Gashi, a senior official of the Democratic League of Kosovo, appeared to confirm this assessment.

10.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared to confirm that assessment.