11.   County leaders denied the charge.

12.   County leaders from around the state find themselves putting up their own money for transportation and hotel accommodations to attend a meeting whose purpose is unknown to them.

13.   County leaders say the future of south DeKalb is bright.

14.   County leaders and business owners, however, say banning cars from the beach could bring an economic disaster.

15.   County leaders quickly settled on a development group, Homestead Air Base Developers, dominated by influential Cuban-Americans with close ties to the Democratic Party.

16.   Crimes like this one, county leaders said, simply did not happen here.

17.   Dell also does his own research, talking to county party leaders and ordinary voters he meets in grocery stores.

18.   Giuliani annoyed some Republican leaders by taking the unusual step of placing himself squarely in the midst of the intraparty squabble by backing DiCarlo for county leader.

19.   He had the support of four of the five county Democratic leaders.

20.   He resigned as county Democratic leader the next May, when the governor named him to the state bench.