1.   And Vice President Al Gore has boasted of how e-mail is replacing the telephone as his means of communicating with staff aides.

2.   As a staff aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, her husband was responsible for overseeing issues related to Vietnam.

3.   Assemblyman Dov Hikind, for example, said he expects to endorse Reznik, who is also a former top staff aide to the assemblyman.

4.   A former Senate Judiciary Committee staff aide, Breyer is a legal technician who has aroused some suspicions among experts in environmental law.

5.   A Thompson staff aide, who asked not to be identified, denied that Ickes was being summoned to rebut criticism that the investigation had gone off track.

6.   A senior Republican staff aide, who asked not to be identified, said Thompson had allowed himself to be bamboozled by the Democrats.

7.   A staff aide said this tire was built by an American manufacturer for pickup trucks.

8.   But beyond the gesture, staff aides in the Senate said that Bush had not lobbied any Democratic senators on the committee.

9.   Commission members Wednesday summoned staff aides to explain alternatives to the Pentagon recommendations.

10.   Democratic leaders said that staff aides would negotiate most of Wednesday night and an agreement was even possible with the White House by Thursday or Friday.