1.   Business leaders contend a balanced budget would drive down interest rates, trigger economic growth, create jobs and raise real income.

2.   But all the activity has apparently awakened the wrath of militant Muslims in the area, as well as the resistance of local Muslim officials, Catholic leaders contend.

3.   Business leaders have long contended that economic sanctions rarely produce changes in foreign governments and taint American corporations are unreliable suppliers.

4.   But federal money is tracked more easily, and many county leaders contend that they have been shortchanged in that.

5.   But law enforcement efforts to crack down on drug trafficking and the lack of adequate infrastructure impede business between the two countries, the business leaders contend.

6.   But some community leaders contended that minority areas desperately needed larger supermarkets that provided lower prices and better variety.

7.   But union leaders contend that repealing the Dole decision would remove an important incentive for employers to keep their workplaces safe.

8.   Coalition leaders contend that their election victories are a result of intense organizing, not hidden agendas.

9.   Community leaders contend the area has been linked unfairly to anti-government extremists who have settled in the mountains the past two decades.

10.   Council leaders contended Tuesday that support for some level of restriction is so broad that new, tough regulations were virtually certain.