51.   Cigarette makers want to be protected from crippling court awards, a privilege many anti-tobacco groups want to deny the companies.

52.   Civil-rights groups want it retired.

53.   Claiming the law is stacked in favor of the utilities, the group wants new legislation that would provide Massachusetts ratepayers with a bigger electric bill discount.

54.   Consumer groups want to expand federal health care subsidies.

55.   Consumer groups want as much competition as possible to drive down prices.

56.   David Myers of the Wildlands Conservancy said his group wants more than the assurances of those now in power.

57.   Dees-Thomases emphasizes that the group does not want guns banned.

58.   DeRobbio and Schwarz rejected the offer, a move that Gehl said proves the buyout group does not want to own Gehl.

59.   Each group wants control over the taxing of smuggled oil to Turkey and goods from Iran.

60.   Environmental groups want the conservation of wildlife and their habitats to be the overriding goal when the Fish and Wildlife Service regulates the use of refuges by the public.