1.   Clarke was speaking after two days of talks with other Treasury ministers and advisers at Dorneywood, his official country residence.

2.   During his second term, Yeltsin has largely been out of sight, spending many weeks sidelined at his country residences outside Moscow.

3.   Dmitri Yakushkin, the press secretary, said that Yeltsin was taken to the elite Central Clinical Hospital after doctors examined him at his country residence.

4.   It became her country residence, and over the years the outbuildings were renovated for her family, for parties and events.

5.   She systematically collected English paintings for the Winter Palace and her country residences.

6.   The semiofficial Itar-Tass news agency reported that he was seeing a few people, like Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin, at a country residence.

7.   The stir over EMU comes as Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to meet German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Monday at his official country residence, Chequers, outside London.

8.   President Boris Yeltsin Saturday began his summer vacation at his country residence outside Moscow, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

9.   President Boris Yeltsin was released from the Kremlin hospital on Monday to continue recuperating from double pneumonia at his country residence outside Moscow.

10.   Prime Minster Tony Blair watched from his Chequers country residence.