11.   A sluggish stock market and an earthquake forced the public railway to postpone earlier plans for the equity sale.

12.   Additionally, Mikhailov did not say whether Moscow has abandoned its earlier plan to reprocess the spent fuel and return the nuclear waste to Georgia.

13.   Bucaram backed out of earlier plans to remove the subsidies last September, for fear of a backlash from poor Ecuadoreans.

14.   But Demo-Dispo now must compete with projects nationwide for rent subsidies, a problem not envisioned in the earlier plan.

15.   But experts believe the rebels are upset that the government has backed off earlier plans to focus the talks on an interim arrangement.

16.   Clinton also revised his earlier plan for how to improve the finances of Social Security.

17.   Earlier plans for a commercial jetport were dropped as unworkable, in part because of local concern about jet noise.

18.   Earlier plans had called for far more expensive and extensive re-engineering at Rivne and Khmelnitsky.

19.   Earlier plans to form a joint venture to build a refinery in northeastern Brazil have been shelved on economic grounds.

20.   During the campaign, Fox backed away from earlier plans to privatize Pemex, the state oil company.