101.   Confirmation hearings for Ireland have not yet been scheduled, but his nomination did not touch off the immediate opposition that Fried and Marshall faced.

102.   Congress is now considering several bills that would fundamentally change the way regulations are written, touching off a frenzy of business lobbying.

103.   Cuba may eventually open, touching off battles over trademarks and tobacco supplies.

104.   Currently, however, there has been no potent disturbance to touch off a chain of events leading up to a big storm.

105.   Declines by Southeast Asian currency and stock markets touched off panic selling on world stock markets Monday.

106.   Declines by Southeast Asian currency and stock markets touched off panic selling on world stock markets on Monday.

107.   Despite widespread Israeli jitters that the breakdown of the Camp David talks might touch off a new round of violence by Palestinians, Wednesday passed quietly.

108.   Do not touch off that emphatic punch-out fist.

109.   Elsewhere in the West, moisture being drawn from Mexico will touch off patchy clouds and an isolated afternoon thundershower in parts of the Rockies and Southwestern deserts.

110.   Efforts to test the competency of teachers have touched off courtroom battles from New York to California, and Massachusetts almost certainly is next, specialists said Monday.