1.   What his mother needed, he thought, was someone to be with her several days a week.

2.   What the country needed, he thought, was an accurate list of the millions who had fallen.

3.   What L.A. really needs, film industry thinking goes, is a volcano.

4.   But the Bush administration restated Monday it would construct a defense against missiles, if one is needed, whatever Russia and other nations may think of the plan.

5.   But the Bush administration restated Monday it would construct a defense against missiles, if one is needed, whatever Russia and other nations may think.

6.   On Monday, the administration affirmed it would construct a defense against missiles, if one is needed, whatever Russia and other nations may think of the plan.

7.   The Bush administration affirmed Monday it would construct a defense against missiles, if one is needed, whatever Russia and other nations may think of the plan.