1.   As the chief executive of Alcoa, the leading aluminum manufacturer, he remained outspoken about public policy and did not always back consensus Republican positions.

2.   Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was said to have joined the consensus position of leaving Iraq and other targets out of initial plans.

3.   He suggested that meeting would hammer out a consensus position to take to treaty talks next December at Kyoto, Japan.

4.   Representatives of most of the states met last Thursday in Chicago to begin trying to forge a consensus position.

5.   The major obstacle to the Democrats developing a consensus position on missile defense is the Democrats themselves.

6.   The U.N. commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, who also chairs the racism conference, urged that consensus positions be found.