21.   Auto industry officials have dismissed suggestions of collusion in the past, saying that the auto market is too competitive.

22.   Baldwin, though, dismissed suggestions that Ward would be another Blake.

23.   Barbour, the party leader, dismissed suggestions that the struggle for the nomination could threaten party unity.

24.   Bill Pascoe, the manager of the Schundler campaign, dismissed any suggestion that it was having trouble raising money.

25.   -- Dismissed a suggestion that the political difficulties of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and the poor health of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman threatened the Bosnian peace accords.

26.   A spokesman for the governing Socialist Party, Ivica Dacic, dismissed any suggestion that the men were deserters.

27.   Absher dismisses suggestions that he may be too much of a cheerleader for the CIA to teach effectively.

28.   Adams also dismissed suggestions that the bombing showed he cannot deliver the IRA for an overall political settlement.

29.   Aides also dismissed the suggestion that ethics problems facing House Speaker Newt Gingrich had given Clinton some political room to breath.

30.   Brown spokesman P.J. Johnston said the power-plant question had political and tactical sides to it but dismissed suggestions that the mayor was intentionally keeping a low profile.