91.   The energy plan endorsed that idea.

92.   The governor formally endorsed the idea in May.

93.   The governors of Tennessee, North Carolina and Missouri, all Democrats, expressed neutrality, ambivalence or cautious interest in an employer mandate, without endorsing the idea.

94.   The idea was endorsed by board chairman James Carlin, public higher education chancellor Stanley Koplik, education commissioner Robert Antonucci and several other board members.

95.   The idea was endorsed last year by a national commission on illegal immigration, but Clinton aides and leading Democrats rejected the idea at the time.

96.   The idea is endorsed by House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, but Republicans are unlikely to go for it.

97.   The idea was endorsed and promoted by the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who made some telescopic observations of his own and drew sketches of what he saw.

98.   The main opposition leader, Naoto Kan, also endorsed the idea that Japan should launch a satellite.

99.   The party endorses the idea that parts of Quebec could break off and stay in Canada.

100.   The other witnesses endorsed that idea and noted that the Federal Trade Commission has just such an operation.