71.   Labor groups and opposition politicians are demanding Bucaram step down because they oppose his proposals for free-markets reforms.

72.   Many also received campaign contributions from the accounting industry, which hotly opposed the proposals.

73.   Mayer said that the editors had opposed a proposal that the society had floated at one meeting to create spin-off journals to publish many of the rejected papers.

74.   Meanwhile, the insurance industry, which opposes the proposal, is ready to fight.

75.   NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton said the broadcast industry opposes any proposal that would require TV stations to give away air time to office-seekers.

76.   Nations that opposed the proposal said they did so more because of how the bank had handled it rather than because of the project itself.

77.   New York City leaders were lining up to oppose the proposal.

78.   Opposing this proposal, the union says it would endanger the pensions of the hundreds of thousands of teamsters left in the multi-employer plans.

79.   Pascal Lamy,trade commissioner for the European Union, said he opposed a proposal by labor unions to allow WTO trade sanctions against countries that violate labor rights.

80.   Pataki pushed for legislation allowing mutually held life insurers to form holding companies able to issue stock, a proposal opposed by consumer and senior citizen groups.