21.   In successive procedural votes, senators failed to halt debate on two competing proposals.

22.   In the white heat of a money-for-access scandal, the capital suddenly is awash in competing proposals to clean up campaign corruption.

23.   It struck so much fear into business interests and lawmakers that they put together their own competing proposal.

24.   Italy, where strikes are common, remained tranquil and free of gasoline shortages as trucking leaders and government officials negotiated over competing proposals for relief.

25.   Joint Strike Fighter funding is split with Lockheed Martin, which has a competing proposal for this family of airplanes.

26.   Kazarian asked the Borden board to permit Japonica to put in a competing proposal that would give shareholders an alternative to the Kohlberg, Kravis deal.

27.   Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and a team including McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grumman, and British Aerospace plc have offered competing JAST proposals.

28.   Mills and the San Francisco YMCA, Vinson said, won the commission vote despite what he said was an unfair port staff comparison of the competing proposals.

29.   New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the City Council have been feuding for nearly nine months over their competing proposals for an agency to monitor police corruption.

30.   Now it is in the hands of the Assembly, where two competing proposals, as well as the Senate bill, are being considered.