Congressional officials expressed interest in getting more details but gave the plan a general endorsement.

Moody's warned that the rating involved a small amount of debt and was not a general endorsement.

From the 1950s to the 1960s, there was general endorsement among liberals for military action to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam.

Despite the Mayor's general endorsement, the commission's report contained some implicit criticisms of his nearly 10 years in office.

In Beirut, one draft resolution gave a general endorsement to the call for normal relations with Israel.

If he intends to hold to his general endorsement of an open world trade policy, he must act now to block protectionist demands.

The decision was widely interpreted as a general endorsement of the constitutionality of zoning laws.

The NATO gulf statement also gave a general endorsement in principle to the American and community diplomatic contacts with Iraq.

Despite Mr. Yeltsin's general endorsement of a joint system, the depth of Russian interest in anti-missile defenses is unclear.

The Gazette supported Savoidakis's bid for re-election in 1986, even as it gave a general endorsement to the MCM.

But Dr. Sakharov coupled his appeal for Soviet troops cuts with a general endorsement of the Soviet Union's approach to arms control.

The Section, whose attention was anyway moving towards international measures co-ordinated with the Americans to promote trade, rested content with the general endorsement of the demand management approach.

She combines reasonable thoughts about nutrition with a general endorsement of joie de vivre, and her tone is girl friendly enough to account for the book's runaway popularity.

A general endorsement of the scientific results from the navy's Chief Hydrographer (and former Scott opponent) Sir William Wharton was encouraging.

Mr. Yeltsin, for his part, has given a general endorsement of Mr. Lebed's efforts, while indicating that he opposed a quick withdrawal of Russian troops.

This debate has been in line with the best democratic traditions of this Parliament, and I am grateful for the broad general endorsement of our carefully conducted enlargement policy.

The board gave general endorsement to the plan Thursday night here, though no final action is due until September pending consultations with the petroleum industry, Detroit automobile makers and electric utilities.

There had been general endorsement of the broad aims of Partnership in Validation to respond to increasing maturity on the part of associated institutions, but dislike of the detailed machinery.

The Reagan Administration has offered a general endorsement of a variety of peace plans, most recently one put forward by President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica.

The report has won the general endorsement of the Transportation Department, which would undertake actual reconstruction work, and the Parks and Recreation Department, which also has a large stake in the effort.

"I believe she would have a much better shot at achieving the attorney general endorsement of the Conservative Party than she would of getting the endorsement running for United States Senate," he said.

Mr. Bush sought and received a general endorsement of his actions from the United Nations but has declined to put the military action under a United Nations command, calling it an act of self-defense.

In remarks to a Russian television correspondent after the morning session, Moscow's foreign minister, Igor S. Ivanov, chose not to criticize Mr. Bush directly, falling back instead on a general endorsement of multilateralism.

But the general endorsements have in most cases been contingent on an acceptable formula for how the elections will be held, and it is clear that much of the international support will vanish if Israel is seen as offering an unreasonable set of rules.

Asked if he worried that events were moving too fast in Eastern Europe, given the spread of popular upheavals to Czechoslovakia, Mr. Gorbachev responded with a general endorsement of the changes under way in the Eastern bloc.