21.   Similar road-building plans had been stalled under the previous Labor Party governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

22.   The government wants to sell separate power plants to the private sector, but such a plan has been stalled for months because of strong opposition from workers.

23.   The failed launch of an Israeli communications satellite from Russia has stalled plans by Israel to send its own spy satellite into orbit, a newspaper said Monday.

24.   The issue has stalled plans for all-party constitutional talks since the IRA called a cease-fire in its violent campaign against British rule.

25.   The government long has promised to modernize the troubled military, but reform plans have been stalled by internal opposition and the lack of a clear policy.

26.   The government wants to sell separate power plants to the private sector, but such a plan has been stalled for months because of strong resistance from workers.

27.   The renewed fighting could stall ambitious plans to accelerate economic growth to six percent and cut a spiralling budget deficit by more than two-thirds.

28.   The plan is stalled in committe meetings.

29.   U.S. officials say privately that Yemen is stalling plans to deploy U.S. military counterterror trainers because of the situation in the Mideast.

30.   But the plan has been stalled by strong opposition from Thai environmental groups who say the pipeline will destroy fishing grounds and cause other ecological damage.