1.   The Senate was expected to endorse the decision by the end of the month.

2.   At this meeting it was decided by the Committee to approve the Constitution of the European Federation of Funeral Services on behalf of the N.A.F.D.

3.   Bush also endorsed the decision by the Justice Department Wednesday to open a criminal investigation into the company and its bankruptcy.

4.   Bush said American troops deserve full support, but he stopped short of endorsing the decision for airstrikes.

5.   Dr. Cassandra Wanzo of Atlanta, the psychiatrist who is treating Derrick Adkins, said she endorsed his decision, knowing the side effects that anti-depressant medications can cause.

6.   Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt, who triumphed over a Holocaust denier in a British libel trial this year, endorses the decision.

7.   Even as she called for new U.N. sanctions against Sudan, she endorsed the decision to let Occidental bid for the oil contract.

8.   It said the council had endorsed a decision by the Iraqi parliament Monday to end cooperation.

9.   Lewinsky had already decided not to cooperate with Starr, she said, a decision Ginsburg endorsed.

10.   Opposition leaders rushed to endorse the decision.