11.   A majority of parliamentary factions endorsed a plan to shift from a complex two-step electoral formula to a new system of direct presidential elections.

12.   A second Bush appointee also endorsed the plan.

13.   A week after she endorsed the plan, Best Buy sent a film crew to a Houston nightclub and filmed a Cutrufello show.

14.   A year ago, a razor-thin margin of voters endorsed a plan to create an elected assembly to assume control of many governmental functions.

15.   Allstate also has taken steps to cut its potential claims losses in California by endorsing a plan to change the way the insurance industry covers earthquakes in the state.

16.   Brewer endorsed the plan along with representatives of the National Association of the Deaf, the United Cerebral Palsy Associations, the American Council of the Blind and others.

17.   British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown endorsed a plan for the International Monetary Fund to lend short-term to countries in financial difficulty.

18.   Bush plans to endorse that plan when he visits the DMZ area on Wednesday.

19.   But it also endorses a plan to give SUNY the right to charge different tuition at different types of college campuses.

20.   But more than a week ago he thrust himself into the fray and endorsed plans by Republican legislators to name a set of electors.