1.   An administration economist said his agency was often asked by the State Department for success stories in Russia that could be cited to Congress and elsewhere.

2.   And the administration economists who claim that privatization will strengthen Social Security are, more than ever, revealed as quacks.

3.   Hubbard, the Bush administration economist, said the same thing, although more diplomatically.

4.   In preparing the annual mid-year review of the economic and budget outlook, Clinton administration economists, though without saying so directly, clearly assumed the same thing.

5.   Interest rates are seen falling next year, according to administration economists.

6.   Much of the improvement was linked by administration economists to the economic expansion that began seven years ago and continues to rumble on.

7.   That panel, headed by Bush administration economist Michael Boskin, could provide some political cover.

8.   The decision was a defeat for industry, many Midwestern governors and administration economists who had argued that the costs of the new standards far outweighed their benefits.