21.   A few steps down the block, similar views came from Ron Cole, an intense man dressed in black jeans and black leather jacket.

22.   A similar sanguine view was expressed by Federal Reserve Gov. Laurence Meyer in a speech to National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders in Boston.

23.   A similar view is echoed by others.

24.   A similar view was expressed by Mark Miller, executive director of the Republican Leadership Council, which seeks to offset the grip of social conservatives on the party.

25.   A similar view was expressed by Ruby Lerner, director of the Creative Capital Foundation, an organization recently formed to make private grants to individual artists.

26.   A New Jersey Supreme Court decision this past June took a similar view.

27.   A similar view is held by Michael Davidson, owner and manager of Far Flung Adventures, based in Terlingua, just outside Big Bend National Park in Texas.

28.   A similar view is held elsewhere in the foreign exchange markets.

29.   A similar view was expressed by European diplomats, who said they were willing to use the document as a basis for negotiation.

30.   A similar view came from Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, which is leading the bailout.