21.   John Davis, a partner with consulting group State Affairs Co. in Reston, Virginia, is skeptical that the Internet will influence the election.

22.   Lou Marcoccio, managing partner of the Gartner Group, an internationally known consulting group, said some of these measures may be unnecessary.

23.   Missouri is judged by Regional Financial Associates, a consulting group, to be the closest state to being a microcosm of the overall U.S. economy.

24.   Not necessarily, said Eric Scheirer, a media and entertainment analyst for the Forrester Research consulting group.

25.   Other agencies include Collegiate Marketing Co., a market consulting group in Radnor, Pa., and Tattoo Inc. in San Francisco.

26.   Reed, president of the Atlanta-based Century Strategies consulting group, has said he had no knowledge of any recommendation made by Rove to Enron.

27.   Psychologist Hellen Hemphill and management consultant Ray Haines, partners in Transition Strategies, a management consulting group based in Bellevue, are two of them.

28.   The company can go two ways, said Andrew Belt, executive vice president for consulting group Renaissance Worldwide.

29.   The cuts will come across the board, though one executive suggested that the majority of job losses would come from the strategy consulting group.

30.   The dinner was sponsored by the Labor Research Association, a consulting group that advises unions.