Some terrific candidates were excluded solely because they didn't have a new piece of fiction available by our deadline.

An investment banker suggested that even the combined Morgan Stanley-Dean Witter "would be a terrific candidate for Chase Manhattan."

Also, Donna Lopiano of the Women's Sports Foundation, who combines high ideals and experience as a former athletic director at the University of Texas, would be a terrific candidate.

We've got a terrific candidate, and we're going at it tooth and nail.

"Mrs. Whitman will make a terrific candidate in the fall."

Paul Begala, who has offered his advice, said: "I think he'd be a terrific candidate.

He was probably right, but he would have been a terrific candidate and a very good President.

But she added, "We have some terrific candidates running with the New Jersey Conservative Party."

"Bill Clinton will be a terrific candidate," he said, adding that the Arkansas Governor will win the election in November over President Bush and Ross Perot.

Obviously, we were a terrific candidate for help.