91.   It is my opinion that the inadequate TV rating system is to blame for this.

92.   It seems logical that simple, objective, straightforward rating systems should generate the most useful appraisals.

93.   Jerry Johns, president of Southwestern Insurance Information Service, another industry group, said the entire benchmark rating system should be replaced because it relies on old information.

94.   Jerry Cheske, a spokesman for AAA, defends its rating system.

95.   Julie Heaberlin, senior editor for features, says there are no plans to drop the star rating system because it is a service to readers.

96.   Jacobson said his job is to make the guides the preeminent rating system in the country, and last year he embarked on ways to improve the rating committee.

97.   Last December, video-game makers were urged by Congress to adopt a rating system within a year or have Congress do it for them.

98.   Legislation is pending in the Senate that would overhaul professional boxing from the personal contracts boxers sign with promoters to the rating system that ranks fighters.

99.   Lieberman was sponsor of a Senate bill to make the networks adopt a uniform rating system.

100.   Liu and other teenagers say the rating system is largely irrelevant anyway, as they have been able to buy M-rated games for years.