1.   The polls show the party trailing the opposition Liberal-National Party coalition, led by the former economics professor, John Hewson, which supports the monarchy.

2.   Armey, a former economics professor, ardently opposes an increase in the minimum wage, a position held by roughly two-thirds of the Republican majority.

3.   Armey, a former economics professor, has called for abolishing the minimum wage altogether, arguing that it destroys jobs.

4.   Armey is an economist and former economics professor at the University of North Texas in Denton.

5.   Bartlet, a former economics professor and Nobel Prize winner, rarely needs advice on economic matters from his staff.

6.   Alexander Shokhin, a former economics minister and leader of the centrist faction, is deputy prime minister in charge of financial policy.

7.   Early in his political career, Armey often cited Gramm, another former economics professor, as one of his role models.

8.   Gramm is actually a former economics professor who came from a modest upbringing.

9.   Harry Langman, a former economics minister and ABN NV bank executive, is making the rounds among Dutch corporate executives to find supporters for Fokker.

10.   Harry Langman, a former economics minister and ABN NV executive, is currently making the rounds among Dutch corporate executives to find supporters for Fokker.