1.   Members fear more jobs could be lost if a budget decision to cut the jobs and save money is ratified at a special full council meeting tomorrow night.

2.   But this decision must be ratified by a U.S. District Court judge before the rule becomes binding.

3.   Chicago was the last convention that did not ratify the decision of voters in primaries.

4.   The decision must be ratified by President Clinton and Congress before it becomes final.

5.   The committee was expected to ratify a decision to shift gears in its response to the lawsuit filed by attorney Michael C. McLaughlin.

6.   The full state convention is expected to ratify the decision in November.

7.   The ministers are expected to ratify their decision on quotas and to release a statement Thursday.

8.   The upper house of Parliament is widely expected to ratify the decision.

9.   They are now quadrennial, media-event social swirls that decide little, but ratify the decisions of others.

10.   When government must ratify personal decisions, we ask it to rule on distinctions like this.