41.   The owners hope to expand with two new lifts and runs to a nearby butte, rendering moot the competing plans for a new, larger ski area.

42.   The specter of a competing plan may force Hayes to offer creditors a sweetened deal to get committee approval for its plan.

43.   The Stanford proposal was chosen over a competing plan by the University of Alabama and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

44.   Their competing plans will directly affect everything from drug coverage to retirement money to the stock market.

45.   With Congress still wrangling over competing plans to reauthorize transportation aid to the states, Florida has run out of federal funds for highway safety programs.

46.   Bush said he envisions offering a range of competing Medicare plans, private as well as public.

47.   Competing plans in the House are dividing Republicans.

48.   France has offered a competing plan for a cease-fire, and French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette is engaging in his own version of shuttle diplomacy.

49.   However, competing plans in the House are dividing Republicans.

50.   House Republicans planned a press conference for the same hour to detail their competing plan.