1.   The consultants also reviewed certain expansion issues to provide advice on matters of potential litigation.

2.   A compromise on the expansion issue would not, in and of itself, remove all of the problems with START II.

3.   But state prison officials say they were simply following the mandates of the Texas Legislature and Texas voters, who approved two prison expansion bond issues.

4.   But Yeltsin, a day after publicly and privately upbraiding NATO Secretary General Javier Solana over the NATO expansion issue, decided not to speak about it with Christopher.

5.   Predictably, Mr. Yeltsin has used the NATO expansion issue to whip up nationalistic fever in Russia and threaten a Cold Peace.

6.   Take the briefing that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave before leaving for Geneva and a Big Five powwow on the nuclear expansion issue.

7.   The expansion issue has divided the western alliance.

8.   Then the owners will convene for a special meeting in Dallas in mid-February to discuss the expansion issue further.

9.   -- Clinton, Yeltsin postpone solutions to Iranian nuclear reactor sale, NATO expansion issues.

10.   A summit scheduled after Finland takes the EU presidency in the second half of this year will be largely devoted to expansion issues, Timans said.