1.   Appeals of lower court decisions by peripheral figures, however, keep the case alive, and Independent Counsel Donald Smaltz has yet to release his final report.

2.   Aides, however, did not discount the possibility of further charges against more peripheral figures.

3.   Carne outlived his contemporaries, but he was gradually reduced to a peripheral figure on the French movie scene.

4.   Clinton portrayed herself as a peripheral figure, someone who had only casually asked to be kept informed.

5.   Instead of becoming a central target of the campaign finance scandal, he remained a peripheral figure.

6.   It ended in a legal travesty with mistrials of peripheral figures and Starr himself denouncing before Congress the value of the independent counsel law that created his job.

7.   Julie Hiatt Steele is only a peripheral figure in the investigation of President Clinton.

8.   Only one other peripheral figure in the Lewinsky investigation, Julie Hiatt Steele, has ever faced criminal charges.

9.   Peripheral figure?

10.   Such a convergence would be extraordinary even for a composer more central to the operatic repertory and is scarcely conceivable for a truly peripheral figure like Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.