11.   Among the issues are the growing number of requests by retailers for compensation for unsold and marked-down goods and performance guarantees.

12.   And during Operation Desert Storm, the magazine was besieged with requests by friends and relatives to pen letters to the servicemen.

13.   And in May, Arizona voters turned down a request by the owners of the Cardinals to finance a new football stadium.

14.   And Habibie supposedly agreed to requests by opposition leaders to lift the ban on three publications that had criticized Suharto and his loyalists, including Habibie.

15.   And requests by Zas for additional routes to London and Saudi Arabia have been refused.

16.   And years of polite requests by parents failed to get any results.

17.   Any request by patients will be entertained.

18.   Apple Computer Inc. has rejected a request by a small Swiss company to license its version of the Macintosh operating system for use on computers made by IBM.

19.   At first, the IOC rejected the request by the U.S. delegation.

20.   As the referendum date approached, the board refused a request by the Amarillo Globe-News, the local newspaper, for the rejected offers.