21.   Regulators are said to favor the idea of a three-way merger to form a strong French banking group.

22.   Several large medical groups favor the idea and say they have the size and experience to assume the risk successfully.

23.   The bridge and tunnel agency, a part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which also runs the subways and buses, was said Tuesday to favor the idea.

24.   The Chinese and American researchers favored the idea that the feathers served to keep the dinosaurs warm.

25.   The firm did consulting work for Kalamazoo about the mall, and favored the idea of opening it to motorists.

26.   There have been times when NASA favored the idea that only the macho could be astronauts and times when it favored the idea that anyone could be.

27.   This month, Hastert announced that he favored the idea.

28.   While McCain favors that idea, he dropped the provision in order to win Democratic support for the overall ban on soft money.

29.   Annan favors the idea of creating the new post of deputy secretary-general.

30.   But one Indonesian athlete said that as Moslems he and his teammates would not indulge although he favored the idea of condom distribution.