1.   Attorney General John D. Ashcroft announced additional changes designed to make it easier for the FBI to conduct domestic surveillance and investigate suspected terrorists.

2.   But are these cosmetic changes designed to reassure skittish travelers, or do they actually heighten security?

3.   Complicated changes designed to close the most outrageous loopholes utilized by affluent taxpayers and their lawyers may take longer.

4.   He also found NHL rule changes designed to keep defenses from clogging the neutral zone.

5.   In the absence of policy changes designed to strengthen the social safety net and significantly boost wages, they will continue to struggle, and at times suffer.

6.   It may not have seemed like it as the season went on, but rules changes designed to protect quarterbacks seem to be working.

7.   NCAA baseball officials have approved rules changes designed to cut the performance of aluminum bats.

8.   On the court, the ABA hopes to present itself as an alternative to the NBA, with rule changes designed to raise scoring.

9.   President Bill Clinton proposed changes designed to make the U.S. Internal Revenue Service more accountable and head off congressional efforts to grant the tax-collecting agency more independence.

10.   Some recent changes designed to track and control listeria are already in place.