1.   After Houston coach Jeff Fisher screamed for a while, the officials conferred and announced that the Oilers did indeed have a first down.

2.   But league officials must confer today with representatives from ABC before announcing a starting time.

3.   Hammer said that while the White House welcomed any hopeful signs, administration officials must confer in depth with Chernomyrdin before determining whether there are concrete reasons for optimism.

4.   He said department officials would be conferring with King Country prosecutors as early as Friday in hopes of hammering out a joint strategy before holding talks with Brazilian officials.

5.   Romanian, Belgian, British, and German officials confer over desktop PCs, deciphering made-up tasks or the positions of troops in a fake land.

6.   Rubin said that administration officials were conferring with congressional tax writers on the proposal.

7.   That is unlikely to happen before the race reaches France on Tuesday and Tour officials can confer with the police there.

8.   The officials confer.

9.   The officials conferred.

10.   Then officials conferred with each other, and Jackson, and realized their mistake.