1.   He was planning on enlisting the aid of the Association of Racing Commissioners to help get the law amended before next year.

2.   Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated.

3.   The law was amended so that profits from drug dealing could be seized by the government.

4.   It also introduces the concept of parental responsibility, amends the law of guardianship and makes provision for welfare reports in proceedings under the Act.

5.   The government may also amend the law to ensure that where there is no inheritance tax on death there is no capital gains tax uplift in base cost.

6.   Associates of Ravitch say that he favors amending the law so that the school system would resemble the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

7.   At one point, the White House dispatched trade officials to Beacon Hill to ask lawmakers to repeal or amend the law, but they were rebuffed.

8.   At the same time, Ms. Reno said, the Clinton administration will propose legislation amending the law to deal with people affected by the ruling.

9.   Attorney Richard Cobb said that unless Congress amends the law, nothing more can be done.

10.   Bell Atlantic, Nynex Corp., and the National Association of Manufacturers are among members of a coalition of employers lobbying Congress to amend the law.