1.   Finally, the Republicans did not receive the same level of external aid as their adversaries enjoyed.

2.   Wilson no longer saw American aid as politically practical or desirable.

3.   American and Japanese officials characterized the emergency aid as an effort to buy time.

4.   Analysts, officials and American Israel backers see the aid as an investment that reaps priceless returns.

5.   A. By using aid as leverage.

6.   Algerian officials have repeatedly cited the French aid as proof of support for the government as it fights a ferocious war against the fundamentalist insurgents.

7.   All this has prompted some American officials to suggest tight restrictions on aid as the only way to get the government to get serious about reform.

8.   Bush agreed to support increased aid as the price of restoring trade authority.

9.   But American diplomats said that despite ongoing discussions with the Egyptians, there was no effort to use the aid as a bargaining chip.

10.   But Connecticut College President Claire Gaudiani blasted merit aid as an academic abomination aimed at filling dorm rooms.