1.   Along the way, Safir has shaken off a call for his resignation from Public Advocate Mark Green, and has received the unqualified endorsement of Giuliani.

2.   And while he said he was satisfied by the final product, he did not give it an unqualified endorsement.

3.   But other observers are hesitant about unqualified endorsements.

4.   For that task, Lincoln gave an unqualified endorsement to president Chuck Armstrong.

5.   Kansas City doctors and nurses, however, stopped far short of giving the shows unqualified endorsements.

6.   Just a month earlier, he received an unqualified public endorsement from the boss who subsequently reversed herself and fired him without warning.

7.   Seeking to put the South Korean fears to rest, Perry gave an unqualified endorsement of the accord.

8.   Speaker Newt Gingrich, in a display of courage, gave it almost unqualified endorsement, as did Senate majority leader Bob Dole.

9.   So chalk that one up as something less than a major unqualified endorsement.

10.   Yet the crash was far from an unqualified endorsement of sport utilities.