1.   And Clinton, who told Dan Rather he would work for the next six months out of his transition office here, will be living in Northwest.

2.   As he has made his rounds, Powell has installed a small group of close acquaintances in his transition office.

3.   Cheney said the Bush-Cheney transition office was being funded through a foundation that has been incorporated under the laws of the state of Texas, Chaney said.

4.   For the next six months, Clinton will maintain two transition offices, one in Manhattan and another in a townhouse just across the street from the White House.

5.   He has methodically gone through the building, inviting groups of diplomats to his transition office on the first floor for show-and-tell sessions.

6.   He has yet to visit his transition office.

7.   His transition office, a cobbled-together suite just down a concrete corridor from the furnace room, had no transition team in it, just the secretary.

8.   In this case, the money and the transition offices are being withheld by the General Services Administration until there is a clear winner.

9.   Mindy Tucker, a spokesman for Ashcroft in the Bush transition office, said that the opposition announced Tuesday was expected.