51.   The study was commissioned by the four members of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board who were appointed by President Bill Clinton.

52.   The study was commissioned and financed by the Southern Global Change Program of the U.S. Forest Service.

53.   The study was commissioned by Potlatch Corp., a San Francisco-based company that, not coincidentally, produces a variety of high-grade papers used in annual reports.

54.   The study was commissioned by the Texas International Trade Alliance.

55.   The study was commissioned by the mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith, who asked Sherman to look into ways of reducing gun violence in his city.

56.   The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy commissioned that study, prompting groups that favor marijuana to complain that it would be biased.

57.   To bolster his arguments, he commissioned a study by Jones Lang LaSalle, the real estate firm.

58.   Under pressure from Congress, the Reagan administration commissioned a study by the National Academy of Sciences.

59.   Palestinian officials said no engineering study had been commissioned yet.