91.   Few breaks are granted and water requests are often rejected.

92.   FBI officials said they had appealed to Reno for permission to begin electronic surveillance of the scientist, Wen Ho Lee, but Justice Department officials rejected their request.

93.   Federal auto safety officials repeatedly rejected requests by safety experts and consumer groups to order a recall.

94.   Federal judges in both cases have rejected requests for injunctions, prompting the appeals.

95.   Green sought a hand recount, but the canvassing board rejected her request, ruling there was no indication of fraud or a machine malfunction.

96.   Harvard University also insisted that the state guarantee its investment in the HMO and rejected a request by regulators to itself guarantee investments made by other parties.

97.   Hatch rejected requests that his panel send the Lee nomination on to the full Senate despite the outcome of a committee vote.

98.   He has gone on two hunger strikes since his arrest demanding to be put on trial, but the government has rejected his request.

99.   He rejected a request by Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood to look into the matter.

100.   He said he immediately rejected their request, and the men pushed him no further.