1.   And he slammed Weld for cutting higher education and embracing Republican plans to make heavy cuts in Medicare.

2.   And large landowners, especially timber companies in the Northwest, have come to enthusiastically embrace the plans.

3.   Annan will present the full details of the agreement to the U.N. Security Council Tuesday, but many of its members already had embraced the plan.

4.   After a period of resistance, many industry giants appear to be embracing such plans.

5.   But Steinberg is bitter that, rather than embracing this plan, environmentalists are, in his view, blocking any solution short of complete closure.

6.   Clinton aides had hoped the industry would give them enough concessions before the presidential announcement to allow Clinton to embrace the plan.

7.   Clinton aides had said they hoped the industry would give them enough concessions before the presidential announcement to allow Clinton to embrace the plan.

8.   Critics say the process should be slowed down and opened up to greater public discussion instead of embracing the plan of a self-appointed group of Internet old-timers.

9.   Finneran chided Weld for pressing legislators to embrace his plan, possibly forcing commuters from western suburbs to help pay for the project with tolls.

10.   Hikaru Matsunaga, the finance minister, announced that the government was embracing the plan, shortly after it was approved Thursday by a task force.