1.   Battling for support from reluctant lawmakers, the appointee, Viktor Chernomyrdin, spelled out a series of economic remedies for the next four months.

2.   Breaux noted that commissions are generally appointed to provide political protection for lawmakers reluctant to embrace controversial ideas.

3.   But the more they learn, the more reluctant lawmakers seem to tamper with an electric utility system that, they believe, works well here.

4.   Cabinet members and business friends are bending ears and twisting arms of reluctant lawmakers.

5.   Clinton cabinet members, meanwhile, met with reluctant lawmakers on Capitol Hill and Clinton invited a group to the White House.

6.   Clinton cabinet members, meanwhile, met with reluctant lawmakers on Capitol Hill, and Clinton invited a group to the White House.

7.   However, Millner is likely to run up against state lawmakers reluctant to implement many of his proposals.

8.   Not all the projects will survive since Davis can threaten to veto items as leverage to pry budget votes from reluctant lawmakers.

9.   Now he has to persuade reluctant lawmakers to accept the man he has tapped to head the next government.

10.   On Monday, presidential spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky voiced confidence that the discussion would persuade the reluctant lawmakers to drop their complaints and back Kiriyenko.