21.  Lott is classically conservative on many levels, and his more extreme views have sometimes alienated the more moderate members of his own party.

22.  Meanwhile, moderate members like the issues but not the proposed solutions.

23.  Moderate member Janet Waugh of Kansas City, Kan., said she had no idea Abrams was working on a revision.

24.  Over lunch Wednesday, moderate Republican House members cautioned Hastert that they could not support basing the fattened tax package on the improved budget-surplus projections.

25.  Powell, the son of Gen. Colin L. Powell, has staked out a position as the FCCs moderate Republican member.

26.  Political scientists say the polarization stems from the type of issues the committee undertakes and its lack of moderate members.

27.  Rabbani was not expected at the meeting, and his absence raised questions about the strength of whatever commitments the moderate members of the delegation might make.

28.  Republican leaders, pressured by moderate members, sent to Clinton this summer a sweeping welfare reform measure that he signed into law.

29.  Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott faces his own restive troops and has had to capitulate to demands from moderate members who insisted that the Senate fund-raising probe include Congress.

30.  Some moderate members of his coalition sometimes criticize his tactics, but they have ultimately endorsed them.