11.   Election mail ballots, which were issued several weeks ago, will be counted by an independent monitor Saturday night.

12.   Giuliani can help break the cycle of corruption with an independent monitor that has both muscle and teeth.

13.   Giuliani vetoed a bill passed by the council to set up the independent monitor, but the mayor is negotiating with Council President Peter Vallone on a compromise.

14.   He also recommended the creation of some type of independent monitor to oversee the state police and suggested that the state attorney general be an elected position.

15.   He has also followed through on his campaign pledge to re-create the office of public advocate as an independent monitor of governmental performance.

16.   Independent monitors have expressed alarm, saying that rising spending and debt, plus promised tax cuts, are bound to produce a crisis within a few years.

17.   Independent monitors will also try to make sure positive results are not covered up, which had been widely suspected in the past.

18.   Independent monitors reported instances of multiple voting.

19.   It created a new central production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent monitors.

20.   It was pressure from churches and synagogues that galvanized The Gap to station independent monitors at its sweatshops in Asia.