1.  Basayev's campaign staff refused to concede Tuesday night, but admitted that their own observers had collected numbers showing Maskhadov above the 51 percent mark.

2.  "What can you do when the staff on the ships refuse to deal with non-union labor?"

3.  Brownback's staff refused to discuss his objections.

4.  But Pataki's staff has refused to rule out stepping outside the guidelines, in case some important new piece of land is identified.

5.  Dole was out of sight in New York for two weeks, said the News, and even his staff refused to explain what he was doing.

6.  Sovey says the hospital staff refused to tell him why he was there, other than he had to "change his attitude."

7.  The committee staff has refused requests by The Times to release many documents related to its outreach efforts.

8.  The congressman's staff refused to discuss the survey Monday after results were made available by another source.

9.  When he emerged one morning from the swimming pool at the Irvine Marriott Hotel without room key or identification the hotel staff refused to let him into his room.

10.  Whereupon the newspaper staff refused to let him use the phone to call for help.