1.   The Clinton administration also favors giving loans to water utilities to upgrade their facilities.

2.   Although the Clinton administration favors the Gilman plan over the Helms proposal, it has stepped up its efforts to defeat both.

3.   An unusually high dollar, which the Clinton administration has favored because it simultaneously restrains inflation and attracts foreign investment, only makes these matters worse.

4.   And by a wide margin, a majority of respondents said his administration favors the rich over the middle class and the poor.

5.   And they said that the Bush administration ultimately favored Sembler because of his longstanding ties and service to the Bush family.

6.   As analysts pondered the currency moves, Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said Monday that the Clinton administration still favored a strong dollar.

7.   Asked about the Republican capital gains tax cut plan, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said the administration favors its more targeted approach.

8.   Beerbower said the administration favors providing tax relief to those families, though the exact means of doing so are unclear now.

9.   But Franklin Raines, White House budget director, said the administration favored allowing a free-wheeling public debate for most of the rest of this year.

10.   But the administration favors the satellite bill as a way to help satellite TV companies compete with cable operators.