1.   Both measures are favored by business.

2.   Both said during their campaigns that they favored a balanced budget amendment, but they never said they favored the measure now being offered by the Republicans.

3.   -- A Los Angeles Times poll published Saturday found that most Americans favor tougher measures to prevent terrorist attacks, even if they entail eroding some civil liberties.

4.   A bipartisan majority appears to favor the measure, but Western Republicans have indicated that they may try to derail it on property-rights grounds.

5.   A large majority of lawmakers had been known to favor the measure.

6.   According to recent polls, Californians favor this measure, as well they should.

7.   After all, a solid majority of California voters has favored measures hostile to multiculturalism.

8.   All the Democrats on the committee favor a measure that would prevent companies from taking advantage of these havens.

9.   Business groups favor measures like a reduction in the capital gains tax.

10.   But in communist Cuba it favors unilateral measures that punish an entire people, alienate old friends and discourage privatization.