31.   Bush has promoted the plan as an important accomplishment.

32.   Bush portrayed his tax-cutting plan as a campaign promise fulfilled.

33.   Bush has derided the plan as forcing older people into a government-run health maintenance organization and has proposed a more limited program.

34.   Bush has touted his plan as an alternative that would yield higher returns to retirees, leaving the choice of investment risk up to the individual.

35.   But a militant group of Muslim activists saw the municipal plan as a holy war against their faith.

36.   Business leaders and diplomats described the plan as a serious and thorough attempt by Bucaram to organize his administration.

37.   But a ballot initiative on the subject is being considered, and Bush may have wanted to offer his One Florida plan as a preemptive strike.

38.   Budget experts recently criticized a limited, alternative GOP House plan as threatening higher costs and lower coverage standards.

39.   Bush cast his tax and spending plan as a wartime agenda necessary to battle terrorism abroad and to keep Americans safe at home.

40.   Bush cast his tax and spending plan as a war-time agenda necessary to battle terrorism abroad and to keep Americans safe at home.