11.  And Bush plans to use former state Sen. Dan Shelley, R-Crosby, as his chief legislative liaison.

12.  And former Soviet states like Ukraine, which also inherited Soviet defense plants, compete for orders Russia covets.

13.  And he was active in the campaigns of congressman Rangel, former Mayor Dinkins and former state Sen. Basil Paterson.

14.  And the Russian minister for relations with former Soviet states, Leonid Drachevsky, said he agreed.

15.  And there are too many unknowns to predict when large supplies from Russia and its former states will begin flowing onto world markets.

16.  Army strategists who once conducted war games against the Soviet Union will soon be waging their mock wars in former Soviet states like Georgia, Armenia and Azerbiajan.

17.  As democratic forces swept the former socialist state, it began to disintegrate with the conflict in Kosovo only the latest chapter in the deadly process.

18.  As former state Rep. Ralph Wayne of West Texas remembers it, Mutscher then took a hands-off approach because he had been accused of gerrymandering the first House plan.

19.  At El Centro, he met former state Rep. Domingo Garcia at a rally where disabled students were demanding more accommodation.

20.  At a recent Democratic State Committee meeting, former state Chairwoman Karen Marchioro asked for a show of hands of Gore supporters, Bradley backers and undecideds.