11.   Driving the decision was the reality of the U.S. political calendar.

12.   For the Republicans, however, the compressed political calendar puts a premium on winning in the early caucuses and primaries.

13.   Like Barak, Arafat has fixed a keen eye on the American political calendar, which leaves President Clinton barely a year to shepherd a permanent peace agreement.

14.   More important, the political calendar suggests that a retirement, if it does come, might come sooner rather than later.

15.   Should the Fed decide to take out that policy by raising rates, it will have to be sensitive to the political calendar in this election year.

16.   She will also escape the bottleneck of the political calendar, with its primary and possible run-off in early September.

17.   Some observers say the looming chaos on the political calendar also may be a reflection of widening alienation from traditional politics.

18.   So far he is just an asterisk on the political calendar.

19.   The Democratic senatorial candidates have a particularly difficult task this year because of the way the political calendar falls.

20.   The only real obstacle they encountered Wednesday came from an accident of the political calendar.