1.   At a leadership meeting, he had treated Oklahoma Rep. David McIntosh, an occasional member of the House GOP rebel wing, brusquely.

2.   Boehner also said that on Monday there was a discussion at a Republican leadership meeting about the need to exercise some restraint on Tuesday.

3.   Boehner also said that on Monday there was a discussion at a Republican leadership meeting about the need to exercise some restraint Tuesday.

4.   But Armey said after the leadership meeting on Tuesday that the differences were narrowing and that he expected a compromise soon.

5.   But at a key leadership meeting last summer, the senior leaders reaffirmed their priority emphasis on economic and technological development, according to the Pentagon report.

6.   But the leadership meetings have not exactly been intimate discussions.

7.   Dumping a speaker in mid-term out of pique is a much tougher proposition than upsetting the party congressional boss at a regular leadership meeting, as Ford did.

8.   During the long, televised Palestinian leadership meeting, Badrasawi has changed from his dusty work clothes and washed away the dirt that caked his eyebrows and hair.

9.   He fields constant requests from corporations around the nation, asking him to come address their leadership meetings, or lay an inspirational speech on their junior executives.

10.   In his post, he ran House GOP leadership meetings and was a key legislative and political strategist.