1.   Governors tried unsuccessfully last year to persuade Congress to convert Medicaid into a block grant, as Congress did on welfare.

2.   The governor tried to suppress the news.

3.   Lord Jenkins was critical of the way the college governors had tried to push through the change without consulting under-graduates.

4.   Although the governor tried to stay focused on his re-election campaign, he was hounded with questions about whether he would run for president.

5.   And to make that point clear, Johnson threatened to take Pataki to court if the governor tried to remove him from the case.

6.   Beatson said the governor is trying to score environmental points with voters while knowing all along that such protections may not have strong support in the Legislature.

7.   Birtwell said the Republican governors will try to convince voters that Bush, as a governor, is more in tune with local needs and concerns than Gore.

8.   Aides both inside and outside the Bush camp said the governor would try to build a team from several sources.

9.   But Giuliani said he was worried that the governor might be trying to scale back benefits for some families too much.

10.   But Kirk said Uribe and other governors tried to set up such networks in their states in the past.