1.   Bonus payments to top officials cost the taxpayer millions of pounds each year.

2.   Clinton has not named a campaign director or other top officials except Lewis.

3.   In law enforcement agencies particularly, top officials have cleaned out their files and left nothing for an incoming administration.

4.   Secretaries often supervise other employees and work directly with top officials to get things done, Chaney said.

5.   Meanwhile, in Budapest, a top weightlifting official, Tamas Ajan, denied that Olympic champion Alexander Kurlovich had tested positive for steroids before the Games.

6.   Last Tuesday a top Belarussian Olympic official dismissed the allegation, suggesting intrigues within the team as the motive.

7.   Also along for the ride was Lois Schiffer, the top environmental official for the Department of Justice, and another high-ranking Justice lawyer.

8.   Also Tuesday, a top FBI official acknowledged agents still have few clues in the investigation into the anthrax attacks that have left four dead.

9.   Although top Air Force officials are said to be pushing hard for a new generation of the spy plane, many in the intelligence community are wondering why.

10.   Although the dollar slipped against the yen, it remained just about where top Japanese officials indicated they wanted it.