1.   As he rightly pointed out, there is no real evidence that the president acted improperly.

2.   He established a precedent that the president can act far more extensively than the constitution allows.

3.   As the incoming administration has struggled with the quadrennial game of Cabinet checkers, the outgoing president has acted like someone feeling more liberated with every passing day.

4.   To be impeached, a president must have acted to subvert the structure of our democracy.

5.   Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Federal Health Care Financing Administration, which supervises the two programs, said the president was acting out of necessity.

6.   But on Wednesday, the president did act.

7.   But Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., is among those questioning whether the president acted prudently.

8.   By rejecting any party affiliation, the president acts as if parties and party development are an afterthought in the consolidation of Russian democracy.

9.   Gore did not say when the president would act.

10.   Her spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said that the first lady told Clinton Saturday morning that she would issue a statement calling on the president to act.