1.   Louis banker and now treasury secretary.

2.   This makes the treasury secretary more secure than most of those who buzz around the honey pot of power.

3.   Under a treasury secretary whom Wall Street trusted less, this dancing on the wire could well have ended messily.

4.   Among fly-fishing trophies and official photographs, Rubin hung an engraved chart of all the treasury secretaries that he had reproduced from the original at the Treasury Department.

5.   Among those whose appointments were announced Wednesday were Francisco Gil Diaz, general director of a long-distance telephone business called Avantel, as treasury secretary.

6.   And so far, he has not developed many skills in talking to players in the financial markets, something Clinton learned from his treasury secretary, Robert Rubin.

7.   Another top campaign aide, California businessman Gerry Parsky, who chaired the campaign effort in his state, could wind up as treasury secretary.

8.   As leverage, the bill gives the treasury secretary various sanctions to impose on those nations, up to barring U.S. banks from dealing with them.

9.   As he leaves as treasury secretary, the budget is in surplus.

10.   Asked this week if he thought he might be rewarded with the job of treasury secretary in a Dole administration, Forbes left that door open.