1.   Civil rights advocates are hoping for a thoroughgoing rejection of the proposed bill.

2.   And civil liberties advocates are still hoping to shut it down, or at least force the acceptance of a boy.

3.   Animal advocates hope the New York legislation will serve as a model for other states.

4.   A decade ago, some park advocates hoped that by now a light-rail train would whisk visitors into Grand Canyon National Park - and keep cars out.

5.   Abortion rights advocates hope that, over time, more doctors will become comfortable with Mifeprex.

6.   Advocates hope that with more education, more young people will make use of protection orders.

7.   Advocates hope the production cost can be brought down with methods like photoelectro-chemistry, a technique developed at the University of Hawaii.

8.   Advocates hope to get at least a congressional hearing on the issue this year but note that Republicans now control all the committees.

9.   But abortion-rights advocates hope the new procedures will sap some of the momentum that critics have gained by focusing on late-term abortions.

10.   But at least for now, Bush has decided not to talk about the four bills filed months ago in Congress that the advocates hope to have enacted.