91.   De Villa, a retired four-star general, like the president, is seen as a strong candidate by many analysts to provide political stability and continue economic liberalization.

92.   The opposition accused the government of delaying the registration of candidates by one week, without announcing it officially.

93.   With only two days before the polls, most voters are choosing their candidates by their successes in the mudslinging matches that characterise Taiwanese politics.

94.   Kuron was last week chosen as presidential candidate by the Union for Liberty opposition party.

95.   Local television showed blind voters using special ballots which allowed them to differentiate among the names of the four candidates by touch.

96.   NHK is airing policy speeches of candidates by turns.

97.   Other candidates by the turn of the century include Cyprus, Malta, Poland and Hungary.

98.   Sponsorship of presidential candidates by parliamentarians is thus impossible, and has been scrapped, and the bond that candidates must put up has been reduced.

99.   The Belgian group has been designated as the best candidate by the privatization office for former East Germany, the Treuhandanstalt, ahead of five other applicants.

100.   The idea that people could unknowingly be induced to buy certain products or vote for particular candidates by subliminal messages has been a part of American folklore for decades.