11.   Verney said volunteers would be collecting signatures until the final hour Tuesday.

12.   While Ms. Komisar was collecting signatures, however, PEN began receiving the returns.

13.   Would have allowed citizens to put issues directly on the referendum ballot by collecting signatures on petitions.

14.   A local history professor, Begona Bernal, is collecting signatures to try to block the project, launched by the Castilla-Leon regional government.

15.   A dissident group has been collecting signatures for a petition aimed at forcing the government to allow greater freedom.

16.   A powerful opposition lawmaker on Friday accused Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze of authoritarian rule and called for collecting signatures to force his dismissal.

17.   Amien, also a lecturer at the university, is collecting signatures of one million supporters to convince the Assembly to nominate him.

18.   Another new element allows parties and individual candidates to qualify for the race by posting a money deposit instead of collecting signatures.

19.   Business owners and students have also been out collecting signatures.

20.   Department heads in the various ministries of the self-rule government have been collecting signatures of support for Arafat, even from reluctant employees, officials admit.