11.   Longhorn,a partnership involving Exxon, Amoco, two pipeline companies and an investment company, counters that neither the permits nor the rights-of-way constitute significant federal involvement.

12.   Ms. Shalala pointed to the expense as an argument for federal involvement.

13.   Mrs. Dowgin and other opponents are convinced that the federal involvement is their last hope in stopping the road.

14.   Ms. Tucker said Wednesday that he had thought he was being asked about federal involvement in education.

15.   Quayle also criticized Democratic Vice President Al Gore, the likely Democratic presidential nominee who campaigns on the need for more federal involvement in day-care and after-school activities.

16.   States want to keep education oversight at the local level and balk at federal involvement.

17.   The ambitious plan is likely to encounter resistance in a Republican-controlled Congress that wants less federal involvement in education, not more.

18.   The assignment is expected to last four to six months, while Congress debates the extent of federal involvement in the airport security plan.

19.   The commission remained squarely within a long tradition of minimal federal involvement in the conduct of American elections.

20.   The federal involvement grew out of prewar complaints that Ascap was monopolizing the licensing of popular music.