1.   And an Alabama insurance executive asks Vice President Al Gore for a letter congratulating his company for a venture with a Riady company.

2.   And insurance executives say that financial incentives are a crucial method of preventing wasteful practices and do not interfere with necessary care.

3.   At night, tables at Little Venice and the more expensive Cafe Lido are filled with insurance executives and their clients.

4.   At a White House meeting last week with President Bush and more than a dozen insurance executives and lobbyists, the industry presented a new plan.

5.   At the World Trade Center, many of the victims were bond traders and insurance executives.

6.   Bernard Rapoport, a Waco insurance executive and big Democratic backer, spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom with his wife, Audrey.

7.   Behind the transactions are the desires of banking, securities and insurance executives to build global financial services companies with customers across all product lines.

8.   Born in Linneus, Mo., he graduated from Yale University and worked as an insurance executive.

9.   But insurance executives say plenty of competition remains.

10.   But that is not always true at other companies, insurance executives say.