1.   But after seven months of debate, the proposal was scrapped.

2.   An innovative plan to streamline and privatize Texas welfare programs is stalled at the White House, where labor leaders are pressuring President Clinton to scrap the proposal.

3.   Bond, who heads the Small Business Committee, said the rules lacked sufficient scientific justification and were so fundamentally flawed regulators should scrap the proposal.

4.   Bush was criticized for scrapping proposals to reduce the level of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and for bowing out of the Kyoto Treaty to combat global warming.

5.   Gephardt said the Democrats would not negotiate with the Republicans on Medicare until the Republicans scrapped proposals to cut taxes for affluent people.

6.   If approved, the measure would effectively scrap a proposal by state education officials to reduce to two years the time teachers are given to earn the degree.

7.   That proposal was later scrapped as New York-based ITT fought off a hostile bid from Hilton Hotels Corp.

8.   While many were relieved that negotiators scrapped a proposal that screeners must be U.S. citizens for five years, some said the measure still unfairly excludes legal residents.

9.   Catholic bishops on Monday joined critics in demanding that Ramos scrap the proposal.

10.   Grant said planners quickly scrapped a proposal to swap dates with the Nortel Open in Tucson.