1.   The commission wisely gave the golf course proposal the thumbs down.

2.   The stock market has so far given the RJB shares the thumbs down.

3.   And a recent campaign was yanked even before it made it on air, after wholesalers were shown the ads and gave them two thumbs down.

4.   And it is giving Bob Dole a thumbs down.

5.   As Hackett walked off the field after the game, a USC fan standing above the locker-room tunnel pointed a thumb down and several others cursed the coach.

6.   Babbitt should give it an emphatic thumbs down.

7.   A big thumbs down for Godzilla the Web site.

8.   Despite the vociferous thumbs down from the anti-government crowd, there are plenty of readers who agree with the president and me.

9.   Economists are split on the idea with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan giving thumbs down, while former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball gives it thumbs up.

10.   Everyone else would probably give the son of Lord Carson a definitive thumbs down.