1.   Citizen activists this week said they were concerned about the legislation, but would withhold judgement until the details were known.

2.   Con men steal and buy absentee ballots, causing widespread election fraud, said Pam Montgomery, a citizen activist from Greene County, Ala.

3.   Group Health had been launched a year earlier by a small group of citizen activists, grange members and about a dozen doctors.

4.   Some citizen activists consider it unseemly that the Legislature receives so many thousands of dollars of free meals and other niceties.

5.   The first shots in the tobacco wars were fired by citizen activists.

6.   The letter was applauded by environmentalists and citizen activists, who regard the Uruguay Round as an unprecedented threat to U.S. progress in environmental protection and health safety rules.

7.   Wednesday the Gore campaign will unveil its New Hampshire health-care advisory board, a group of citizen activists who support Gore and his health-care plan.

8.   Nancy Burton, an attorney for Fish Unlimited and other environmental groups involved in the case, said the ruling effectively silences citizen activists.