1.   BPB made its request as a condition for possibly increasing its offer.

2.   Bras made the request as a way to keep the movement alive.

3.   All three will also be available on request as paperbacks, made to order in small batches with special machines.

4.   Both Craig and the Justice Department scoffed at those requests as unnecessary, since the boy was now in the custody of his surviving parent.

5.   Brown had not ruled on the request as of late Thursday.

6.   But none contained as singular a request as the handwritten letter from first and third graders in this small mountain town in central Sicily.

7.   Cmdr. Dan Watson, who oversees recruit training, said that Williams rejected the request as of Wednesday.

8.   Congressional leaders saw the new request as an attempt to restart the program with little or no debate on Capitol Hill.

9.   Congressmen from California to Texas support that financing request as a way of expediting crossings.

10.   Ellis said the defense might reconsider the request as the time neared.