1.   After Shalala issued her regulations directing major changes, HHS and the transplant network plunged into outright battle over the best way to distribute organs.

2.   And HHS wrote all of the key provisions into the contract it signed with the transplant network.

3.   Dr. Patricia Adams, president of the transplant network, attributed the spike in living donations to improvements in transplantation and the shortage of deceased donors.

4.   HHS has won authority to force the transplant network to send organs to the sickest patients first, but Thompson is unlikely to use the power.

5.   His still-evolving proposal would allow the transplant network to write allocation policy.

6.   President Clinton has threatened to veto the bill, which sides with the transplant network on virtually every point of dispute.

7.   Rather, it sets up a mediation system to settle disputes between HHS and the transplant network.

8.   She issued controversial regulations that required the transplant network to write new distribution policies.

9.   The Frist-Kennedy legislation allows the transplant network to write policy.

10.   The Frist bill would allow the transplant network to write allocation policy.