1.   As for the issue of what consumers pay for drugs, the health institutes have concluded they should stay out of it.

2.   At the same time, Marc Lallemant, a Harvard University investigator working in Thailand on behalf of the health institutes, insisted he would not use dummy medication.

3.   Be suspect of self-proclaimed experts whose expertise is based on a best-selling diet book or a health institute of dubious credibility.

4.   A more cautious position was taken by Dr. Steven Moldin, chief of the genetics research program at the schizophrenia branch of the mental health institute.

5.   Congress has appropriated more than the president requested for the health institute in each of the last few years.

6.   Dr. Wendy Baldwin, deputy director of the health institutes, declined to comment on the draft report.

7.   Elias A. Zerhouni, nominated to lead the health institutes, emigrated to the United States from Algeria.

8.   From his office, Fredrickson mediated the dispute and helped develop guidelines on the research by the health institutes.

9.   Hatfield is chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Porter is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee responsible for the health institutes.

10.   He just returned to Massachusetts from a year in Denmark, teaching at the government occupational health institute there.