1.   He can point to championing free trade agreements, fighting to open Japanese markets to American products, and intervening to push sales of Boeing aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

2.   German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, under political pressure over high unemployment, personally intervened to push for a resumption of talks.

3.   Hopes of an agreement rose earlier this month when Schroeder personally intervened to push for a resumption of talks.

4.   U.S. Senator Arlen Specter met Sunday with President Hosni Mubarak and told reporters that President Bill Clinton should intervene to push the Middle East peace process forward.

5.   Traders say such a move by the central bank is increasingly likely because it has intervened to push the yen higher when it has fallen to these levels before.