11.   If those efforts fail, breaching the dams could re-emerge as an option, officials said.

12.   If the Clinton administration proposes breaching the dams, the issue would then go to Congress, which must appropriate the money.

13.   In interviews, administration officials have signaled that a preferred course might have been a move that would have directed that the dams be breached.

14.   It was hailed by Bush as an example of public-private cooperation that would be a better way of protecting salmon than breaching dams.

15.   Many scientists and environmentalists say the question of whether to breach the dams is a no-brainer.

16.   Thundering down washes, the water breached a dam while central Phoenix barely recorded rain.

17.   Tribes, too, want dams breached.

18.   Unless these problems are solved, the analysis suggested, the wild salmon and trout will probably continue to decline, even if the dams are breached.

19.   Yet not breaching the dams also could cost jobs as federal officials turned from hydropower to habitat, meaning they would try instead to improve conditions in the river.

20.   Bush has pledged to block any attempt to breach the dams.