1.   Both U.S. and Chinese officials emerged from the hourlong meeting, on the fringes of the annual Asian economic summit conference, brimming with confident assessments of the encounter.

2.   A new one came on Friday in Paris after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held an hourlong meeting with Mitterrand.

3.   After an hourlong meeting Wednesday with both banks, Gov. John Rowland said his state would try to exact concessions to offset the layoffs caused by the bank merger.

4.   After the hourlong meeting, the deputy prime minister repeated that Iraq had already complied with Security Council resolutions and that the sanctions should be lifted.

5.   After the hourlong meeting, the two American officials returned to their hotel, where Sealock gave a brief statement to reporters.

6.   After an hourlong meeting with Bush, Olasky was sure he had found a new messenger for his ideas.

7.   But after an hourlong meeting, it was clear that Republican leaders and the White House remained divided over specifics.

8.   Cortines reversed his decision after an hourlong closed-door meeting with board members who felt that insufficient punishment had been meted out to the students from Norman Thomas High School.

9.   During the hourlong meeting at his residential palace, Crown Prince Abdullah appeared relaxed and smiled easily as he spoke in Arabic, which was translated by an aide.

10.   Executives from Merrill Lynch and the agency gave a preview of the campaign at an hourlong meeting at the Thompson office in midtown Manhattan.