21.   Former governor-general Bill Hayden had suggested in his recently published autobiography that Australia should consider acquiring nuclear capability, but McLachlan firmly discounted the idea.

22.   He also discounted the idea of recruiting a top Indycar driver directly into the Grand Prix team.

23.   But Anthony discounted this idea.

24.   Dimitra Papandreou, who has vowed to fight the matter in court, did not discount the idea of entering politics in a recent television interview.

25.   Tom Meeks, the US Golf Association rules director, discounted the idea eks said.