11.   Conservative economists might feel vindicated to know that an increase in the minimum wage also contributed to the ascending price index.

12.   Conservative economists do not expect Bush to brake congressional spending.

13.   Conservative economists question whether the new pattern will persist.

14.   Conservative economists see a very different dynamic.

15.   Even conservative economists fault Bush for trying to sell his proposal as an anti-recession stimulus.

16.   Glenn Loury, a black conservative economist at Boston University, said the policy is a double-edged sword.

17.   Gary Robbins, a conservative economist and former Treasury Department official, says it makes little difference to the economy whether a dollar is spent or saved.

18.   He began reading the works of the conservative economist Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize for his advocacy of free-market economics.

19.   How many conservative economists does it take to change a light bulb?

20.   Jose de Gregorio, a conservative economist educated at MIT and with strong ties to Wall Street, will oversee energy, mining and fishing as economy minister.