101.   Advocates say such a merger could make it more difficult for severely ill patients to get long-term hospital care.

102.   Advocates say targets make providers choose quantity over quality.

103.   Advocates say that businesses plan to do everything from turning peasants into low-wage employees to patenting the herbal medicines the Indians have long used.

104.   Advocates say that technical twist would turn a capital gains tax cut from a money loser to a moneymaker, at least on paper.

105.   Advocates say that trading halts have worked at the New York Stock Exchange and that they would stem the sharpest price moves of Internet-related stocks.

106.   Advocates say the conference comes at a critical moment.

107.   Advocates say the law prevents abuses in immigration cases.

108.   Advocates say the money is needed because of a maintenance and repair backlog that has grown steadily in an era of tight federal budgets.

109.   Advocates say they rarely do so without public pressure.

110.   Across the nation, voucher advocates say private choices should be extended to disadvantaged children, like the poor or those with disabilities, whom public schools have failed.