81.   Also running are two conservatives, Murray Sabrin, a finance professor at Ramapo College, and Brian T. Kennedy, a former state senator.

82.   Buchanan predicted trouble for Dole if the former senator chooses a moderate abortion-rights advocate for vice president.

83.   Burns is seeking agreement on ways to carry out the recommendations of a committee headed by George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator.

84.   Bradley spokesman Eric Hauser said the former senator respects Iowans and their caucuses.

85.   Bradley, the former New Jersey senator who is challenging Gore for the Democratic nomination, also says teachers must be held accountable for student performance.

86.   Bradley, the former senator from New Jersey, did not respond to the Gore speech.

87.   But arrayed against Microsoft is an impressive list of Republicans as well, including former senator Bob Dole.

88.   But Ashcroft supporters have said the former senator and Missouri governor and attorney general has demonstrated a strong commitment to equal rights and fair play.

89.   But Cheney favors Dan Coats, a former Indiana senator who served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to several reports.

90.   But analysts now say the former Republican senator emerged as a steady voice of US military might during the stormy showdown with Iraq.