11.   According to Weld aides Monday, the administration will propose eliminating a tax currently levied on the investment income of local life insurers.

12.   After several years of declining budgets, the new administration has actually proposed a budget increase for NASA this year.

13.   Along with fewer regulations and some modest conservation initiatives, the administration proposes incentives, largely in the tax arena, to encourage more exploration.

14.   But Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, the majority leader, said the changes the administration proposed were inadequate.

15.   But Rubin signaled that the Clinton administration will not propose revisions in the tax code to provide new incentives.

16.   But since Wyatt opened, the Clinton administration has quietly proposed to have such companies run most new low-security federal prisons and detention centers.

17.   But the Bush administration is proposing to structure the deal announced Monday in a way that gets around that requirement.

18.   But the company would not go as far as the administration proposes in restricting ads in publications with heavy teen-age readership.

19.   But several months ago, the Giuliani administration had proposed to give the bulk of that criminal caseload to the Legal Aid Society in a cost-saving effort.

20.   But the administration also proposes to trim projected Medicare spending.