31.   But now the Bush administration wants at least a truce to preserve its global coalition against terrorism.

32.   But it would reduce other Defense Department funds that the administration wants to preserve.

33.   But the administration clearly wants to avoid a rupture.

34.   But the administration wants to name Ruby Moy to that position, officials said.

35.   But the Clinton administration also wanted to defuse trans-Atlantic trade tensions.

36.   But the most popular, known as MTBE, proved to be a threat to groundwater supplies, and the Clinton administration now wants to ban it.

37.   But state health officials contend the Bush administration wants to create a new bureaucratic hassle for Californians with the changes they are requesting.

38.   But the administration very much wants legislation for the trade agreement to pass this fall.

39.   But those GOP sources doubted that the Bush administration would want to send Flynn to Ireland.

40.   But what the administration most wanted to do then was to encourage compromise.