1.   Both Al Gore and George W. Bush have touted proposals linking federal dollars to scores on standardized tests.

2.   Adding to the partisan rancor is the presidential race, with Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore touting education proposals almost daily.

3.   Bush adhered to previously scheduled plans to tout his proposals to bolster public education during appearances in North Carolina.

4.   Forbes met with three generations of the Shannon family in Londonderry to tout his proposal to allow workers to invest their payroll taxes in private retirement accounts.

5.   Nevertheless, sugar industry executives touted their proposal as a dramatic change.

6.   Now on his way to the White House, Bush touts his proposal as a good way to restimulate an economy that is showing signs of slowing.

7.   Some local officials have touted the proposal as a potential boon to the economy.

8.   Gore traveled to an inner-city child care center to tout his proposal to give tax credits for daycare expenses and to rip into Bush.

9.   They touted their proposal at a ceremony on the steps outside the Capitol on Tuesday, with entertainment provided by a retirement-age barbershop quartet.

10.   They touted their proposal at a ceremony that featured a retirement-age barbershop quartet.