1.   Sequencing questions can play a helpful role in easing the respondent into the interview.

2.   President Clinton and former Sen. George Mitchell, the negotiator for the peace talks, played helpful roles in bringing about this transformation.

3.   Russia is credited with playing a helpful role in Bosnia but Yeltsin, said Karaganov, will fight any U.S. effort to lift the arms embargo.

4.   Sanchez said that the Mexican government can nevertheless play a helpful role in Cuba, as it has in helping to resolve the regional conflicts in Central America.

5.   Since then Cairo has turned away from its earlier helpful role as a diplomatic bridge between Israel and other Arab countries.

6.   The United States has played a helpful role in coaxing Netanyahu and Arafat toward a Hebron agreement.

7.   Pakistan, next door to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, has played a helpful role in the U.S. conflict with the Taliban and the al-Qaida network.