1.   A similar request was approved three years ago but has never been implemented.

2.   Ameritech Corp., the regional Bell company based in Chicago, has filed a similar request for Illinois.

3.   Approval of the Digital request to provide local service, and a series of similar requests by other companies, is pending before the Missouri Public Service Commission.

4.   Australians worry that the United States may someday make a similar request over Taiwan.

5.   A similar request from the state to enroll almost all of its Medicaid patients in HMOs is still pending.

6.   A spokeswoman for Texas Gov. George W. Bush never replied to a similar request.

7.   Able predicted that the new guidelines would help smaller, less powerful museums fend off similar requests from corporate sponsors and wealthy collectors.

8.   Advanta today said MasterCard made a similar request.

9.   Addresses for all international students at Salem State College were sought by local police, and the University of Alabama and Cal Poly received similar requests.

10.   Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter, did not answer a similar request.