1.   The accounts amount to hundreds of millions of pesos, which presidents spend however they wish without any required accounting procedures.

2.   Before dinner, Hutton said, the president usually spent an hour talking, swapping stories and reciting the poetry of the Klondike balladeer Robert Service.

3.   About a half-dozen uniformed officers joined Clinton on the podium, and the president spent nearly an hour shaking hands after his remarks.

4.   Aides said the president spent very little time Monday dealing with impeachment.

5.   Brief summary of how the president spent his day.

6.   But aides said the president also spent part of the day on the telephone with strategists trying to keep tabs on what appeared an increasingly gloomy picture.

7.   Clinton is attending several galas in his honor, but aides said the president would spend much of his time polishing his hand-off speech.

8.   During the first course, the new president spent most of his time shaking hands and embracing the men and kissing the women who came by to offer congratulations.

9.   Gephardt said he wished congressional leaders and the president had spent as much time on this problem as they did on budget talks.

10.   In the company of clergy and to a rolling refrain of Scripture, the president spent a solemn day in public with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.