1.   Y., and other lawmakers urged the change after learning that it could be implemented without legislation.

2.   Artigue said the change was urged by the PGA Tour.

3.   Gramm has urged changes in the act, calling it burdensome on small financial institutions.

4.   His wife Martha had died two years before, leaving him in a state of grief so acute that friends urged a change of scene.

5.   Industry officials have long urged that change, betting that the commerce department would be more inclined to give a higher priority to U.S. competitive interests.

6.   Mary Schapiro, NASD regulatory chief, said she also might urge changes in the two most divisive recommendations.

7.   President Bush, who had unsuccessfully urged changes in the bill, has not threatened to veto it.

8.   Shareholders and other stakeholders have new ways to monitor corporate behavior and to urge change.

9.   Some of the fans carry banners urging a change of general managers as well.

10.   Something within him had begun insistently to urge a change.