41.   Federal trade officials then persuaded Japan, the European Community and Canada to endorse the idea in principle in April.

42.   Flight attendants have endorsed the idea of cabin cameras.

43.   For one, trainer D. Wayne Lukas, a spokesman for the sport during his good times and bad, endorses the idea.

44.   Gov. George Pataki was quick to endorse the idea.

45.   Gov. Pete Wilson has endorsed the idea and tucked it into the anti-crime package he carries on his presidential campaign trail.

46.   He has endorsed the idea of school vouchers, but talks much more passionately about helping low-income students.

47.   He endorsed the idea of the premier group.

48.   He said his counterparts had not endorsed the idea of a joint meeting, though he said several bilateral meetings had been arranged.

49.   He has endorsed the idea of regulating carbon dioxide, the main global-warming gas and one of the few pollutants not covered by the Clean Air Act.

50.   He was endorsing ideas of Rob Shapiro, an economist with the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.