1.  Unless school-to-work systems include strong options for post-secondary education, they will have few takers and even less support.

2.  A region-wide council is thought to remain a strong option.

3.  A New York engagement is a strong option, Nunn said, as are a return to a larger National auditorium and a British television version.

4.  Cutting expenditures is not a strong option, he said, because the size of the shortfall is so large.

5.  Barring a sharp turn for the worse this weekend, officials doubt that the foreign ministers will embrace the strong option of immediate sanctions -- at least not yet.