1.   Ashcroft and the FBI director, Robert S. Mueller III, favor the change, the officials said.

2.   At his trial he said he now favors peaceful change, and asked his guerrillas to stop fighting.

3.   But gradually the embarrassment and outside criticism became so acute that more and more lawmakers favored a change.

4.   But Gramm favors fundamental changes in the immigration flow along the border.

5.   But not everyone favors such changes.

6.   But some corporations that buy the contracts favored the change because it would increase the number of triple-A rated contracts and help them diversify their investments.

7.   Clinton had vowed to oppose many of the cuts when they were first passed by the House, then favored changes made by the Senate.

8.   Coelho, the campaign chairman to Vice President Al Gore said in July that Gore too favored a change in the campaign finance law.

9.   Current polls show that the public favors a change in the law, but that was also the case before the referendum nine years ago.

10.   Domenici said he did not favor the change and predicted the effort would fail.