1.   But Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, speaking before the committee vote, said confirming Ashcroft was not the way to achieve it.

2.   If confirmed by further work, he said in an interview, the Cornell work could revolutionize the semiconductor industry.

3.   If confirmed, Whitman said she would give states greater jurisdiction in helping the EPA identify and clean up Superfund sites.

4.   Spread of plague to other parts of India, if confirmed, would be an important escalation of the epidemic, Gubler said.

5.   If confirmed, U.N. officials said he would be the first U.N. civilian official seized by the Serbs since they began taking hostages last week.

6.   If confirmed, he said, it would be the first time a member country had quit the agency.