1.   Thanks to the helpful staff at the hotel, the conference went off very well.

2.   And any time our conference can go outside the conference and beat one of the upper conferences, it helps our power ranking.

3.   After a White House meeting with Sharon, Bush said the Palestinians must begin to reform their government before a proposed international conference of foreign ministers goes forward.

4.   But the U.N. disarmament conference has gone nowhere.

5.   For Norway, Sweden and Germany, delegates said, the conference had already gone too far in diluting language in order to lure the Vatican into a consensus.

6.   Gathering at his home in Santa Fe Monday, he and some colleagues decided that, one way or the other, the conference would go on.

7.   He says it is up to Kabila to show his commitment to peace by allowing a national conference to go ahead and permitting the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers.

8.   If the series has to end there, at least let the news conferences go on forever.

9.   On and on an evermore surly press conference to nowhere went.

10.   Republican leaders opposed to tougher gun laws have so far refused to allow a conference to go forward between House and Senate members aimed at producing an acceptable compromise.