31.   The Brooklyn Democratic organization is sponsoring a move to adopt that restriction as a state party rule.

32.   The city lobbied this month to blunt restrictions as a way to prevent further erosion of home rule.

33.   The Clinton administration accepted a one-year restriction as part of a deal with congressional Republicans to pay back dues owed to the United Nations.

34.   The Legal Services Corp. has accepted the restriction as an alternative to being driven out of business by a hostile Republican majority in Congress.

35.   The industry is offering the advertising restrictions as bait for immunity, arguing that Congress cannot constitutionally impose the restrictions by law.

36.   The Massachusetts law, known as the Dover Amendment, says that religious and educational institutions are not subject to the same restrictions as other developments.

37.   The Schwab health plan guide treats such restrictions as opportunities.

38.   The tobacco agreement, though, seeks to sidestep that problem by having Congress adopt the restrictions as a matter of law.

39.   U.S. acting solicitor general Barbara D. Underwood defended the spending restriction as one way to reduce some of the corrupting influence of money in politics.

40.   Weld immediately attacked the restrictions as weakening the measure.