House Majority Leader Gephardt cautiously endorsed the negotiation of a free-trade agreement with Mexico.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which produced critical studies in 1989 and 1992, cautiously endorsed today's report.

A9 Mexico's President cautiously endorses campaign reforms.

Economists and consumer advocates cautiously endorsed the plan Friday.

In most other cities studied, including New York, the incidence was relatively low among clients of exchanges, leading the National Academy of Sciences to cautiously endorse needle exchanges in 1995.

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Mexico's President cautiously endorsed the sort of broad political changes demanded by his opposition.

Mr. Chirac, by contrast, is much more nuanced, cautiously endorsing Turkey's membership, but saying it could be a 10- to 15-year effort, and even then, would not be certain.

Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato, the New York Republican scheduled to head the Senate Banking Committee next year, cautiously endorsed the Fed's move today.

On a related matter, the agency's investigators cautiously endorsed the Interior Department's explanation about why royalty collections for natural gas had climbed far more slowly than market prices.