1.   And the federal government is eager to speed the transition to digital broadcasting.

2.   Clinton could urge Russian politicians and businessmen to speed the transition to a market economy.

3.   FCC Chairman Michael Powell unveiled a voluntary plan earlier this month to speed the transition from analog to digital television.

4.   He said another advantage of the project was that the tankers will have double hulls, which will help speed a transition to ships less prone to spills.

5.   He said the appointment Wednesday would just speed his transition from senator to lieutenant governor.

6.   Milosevic has used the crisis to speed his transition from war criminal, as he has been described by Western leaders in the past, to statesman.

7.   To speed our transition to free digital TV, Kennard will mount the bully pulpit in a New York speech Tuesday.

8.   The announcement by U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns came as a bill to speed democratic transition in Cuba headed for Senate approval.

9.   The executives also pushed the government to speed the transition to international accounting standards.