71.   The measure would eliminate programs to entice underrepresented minorities and women into medicine and health care.

72.   The move flies in the face of conservative proposals to eliminate the programs.

73.   The regents had sought the authority to dismiss professors whose programs were eliminated and to cut salaries for reasons other than financial emergency.

74.   The plan would eliminate the programs at the end of the fiscal year.

75.   The Republican-led Congress is pushing hard to eliminate such programs.

76.   The Senate also is not expected to go along with eliminating the program.

77.   The restructuring is designed to eliminate programs that already have met their goals or do not produce enough benefit to justify their costs.

78.   The White House feared the provision would be used by Republicans to eliminate some programs they oppose.

79.   These programs were eliminated in recent budget cuts, they said.

80.   They warned that Marlin, who has opposed affirmative action, might eliminate Authority programs that channel business to women and members of minority groups.