41.   A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., predicted that the administration would have to be more accommodating.

42.   A Pentagon official said the administration had to consider two factors when deciding what to sell Taiwan.

43.   A junior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., predicted that the administration would have to be more accommodating.

44.   A shake-up at Treasury would unsettle a department where the administration still has a degree of credibility.

45.   A State Department official said the administration has yet to make any substantial headway in its planning and it was possible the meeting might be canceled.

46.   A Treasury spokesman said the administration may have to settle for the short-term measure, though it prefers a long-term extension of the debt limit.

47.   A. The new administration has a very special opportunity to change the culture of business leadership, or at least to try to change it.

48.   A White House spokesman said the administration had yet to review the Florida settlement but was not concerned about states cutting their own deals.

49.   All administrations have scandals, of course, and all are wracked with controversy.

50.   All the Bush administration has to do is put its money where its mouth is.