21.   He and his spokesmen deny that suggestion.

22.   He denied suggestions that he had been forced into a defensive posture.

23.   He denied union suggestions that his technical directors are exploited.

24.   He denied any suggestion that he had snookered his teammates by hiding his abilities.

25.   He also denied the suggestion that political pressure had affected the reversal.

26.   He denied suggestions that Bulger already had the job sewn up.

27.   He denied suggestions that he was opposed to a salary increase for civil servants.

28.   Hoffa denied suggestions by some political analysts that he was a fair-weather friend who embraced Gore only after the vice president became the front runner.

29.   Ickes repeatedly denied the suggestions that the excesses were somehow his fault, even indirectly.

30.   Last week, Prime Minister Abdul-Karim al-Iryani, a Yale-educated biogeneticist, called an American reporter and denied any suggestion of a cover-up.