Like so many biographers before him, Mr. Ellis points to Washington's self-control and stoicism as his primary traits, but he is not content to simply cite familiar anecdotes commemorating these virtues.

In recent months, the two leading medical journals in the United States, The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association, have published commentaries and editorials taking diametrically opposed positions on the issue, both citing anecdotes and the Dutch studies.

The four-sided markers show old photographs and prints and cite anecdotes describing the personalities and events of the area.

Democrats and consumer groups said the legislation would roll back decades of advances that had led to safer products, and argued that the sponsors of the legislation had grossly exaggerated the problems in courts by citing tantalizing but misleading anecdotes about the failure of the courts to weed out frivolous claims from meritorious ones.

He cited anecdotes of a few show-off judges and scattered instances where potential witnesses disobeyed court orders and watched the trial on television.

I cite amusing anecdotes from past gigs, referring to the children by name-"I still marvel at the cognitive growth of Constance with each hour we spent together in the sandbox."

When the film was released and for a long time afterward, a number of her former coworkers still working, cited anecdotes and other elements of the film that related to the store.

But although blood bank officials cite such anecdotes, they do not have national statistics to back up the contention that such trauma has suddenly increased demand.

They cited anecdotes they said illustrated advertising pricing policies that undermine competing stations, payment deals that skirt laws prohibiting payola, purchases of stations across the Mexican border to bypass domestic ownership caps and the strong-arming of artists to perform with Clear Channel's concert production arm.