After these four post-diluvian Apkallus came the first completely human advisers, who were called ummanu.

But those advisers come with considerable baggage, including judicial inquiries, tax problems and large debts owed to agencies they will soon be supervising.

And Mr. Clinton's senior advisers have come to see the Bosnia issue as a political time bomb that could go off in the 1996 campaign.

Then came what one adviser called "the one-week interruption."

And eventually, policy makers and political advisers came around to the idea of a national campaign.

His advisers came in with one rule: no concessions to elite opinion.

So they call, and once they get access, here comes the so-called financial adviser, who is not governed by the union's agent rules.

Anything, until the day his political advisers came to meet him on the campaign trail in Oregon.

Many pundits and advisers are now coming forward to tell you to focus on policies to stimulate economic growth and reduce the deficit.

Facing the conference table, a straight table where advisers came and went.