1.   Baker urged the Gore campaign to accept the results of the machine recount, along with the overseas absentee ballots that are due on Friday, whatever the result.

2.   It was a match that increasingly took on a surreal quality as the teams became aware that, whatever the result, they were both going home.

3.   Sunday, Yeltsin ruled out replacing Chernomyrdin and vowed that whatever the results, he would not back away from his economic reform policies.

4.   Whatever the result, Drabinsky said, the market for higher-priced seats, suites and perks appears to be a fertile one.

5.   Whatever the result, the task of rebuilding will have been made much tougher by the campaign.

6.   Whatever the result, some analysts remain skeptical of the US commitment to those changes and Israeli support for them.

7.   Whatever the result, it would provide a new government with a new term of office, instead of an interim one muddling along for six months of uncertainty.

8.   With a new cast and conductor, there was a gratifying sense that, whatever the results, this repertory staple had been approached afresh.

9.   But whatever the results, the team has already stirred up a soccer frenzy at home, where a professional league is only in its sixth season.

10.   Calling weekend elections crucial for the future of Albanian democracy, President Sali Berisha on Thursday vowed to recognize them whatever the results.