It's the most shameful act that the economic counselors of the Palestinian Authority did.

From 1953 to 1959 he was Britain's economic counselor for the Persian Gulf, stationed in Kuwait.

Before he became the president's top economic counselor, Lawrence B. Lindsey was a paid adviser to Enron.

He joined the Conference Board in 1975 as vice president for economic research and moved to the economic counselor's position in 1986.

Patricia Haslach, the embassy's economic counselor, and her husband, David Herbert, the general services officer, have tried different ways to deal with it.

An economic counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Edgar Fiedler, vice president and economic counselor at the Conference Board, noted that the index had hovered around the 100 mark throughout the year.

"The decline in confidence is not alarming," said Edgar R. Fiedler, economic counselor to the board.

Since then he was senior fellow and economic counselor to the Board.

Her father is a senior fellow and the economic counselor at the Conference Board in New York.