1.   Alexander Declined to comment, citing attorney--client confidentiality.

2.   Housing subsidies, food supplements, and health care will Decline to levels that no longer can alleviate the pain.

3.   Newbridge officials said they are working out a business strategy with their prospective partner, whom they Declined to name.

4.   The targets are black men with superimposed concentric circles Declining to a solid, black bullseye.

5.   By the sixth and early seventh century civilisation in Europe had declined to its lowest point.

6.   Mr Murphy, who is being represented by a NUPE official and fellow Strathclyde Labour regional councillor, Douglas Hay, declined to comment last night.

7.   American officials, while watching the situation, have declined to comment, except to note that the United States supports a strong and united Canada.

8.   Among those that have come calling on Music Pen, she said, are several other states and at least one other country, which she declined to name.

9.   An Andersen spokesman declined to comment, saying he did not have a copy of the report.

10.   An official with Temco Service Industries of Manhattan, the maintenance company that LaRock said employs the handyman, declined to comment Tuesday.