1.   Senate Republicans outlined three broad paths to a balanced budget Monday but found little support from Democrats, who called them hard on women, children and the elderly.

2.   This found little support in the Irish community, knowing any such assembly would be predominantly Protestant.

3.   Corn prices slipped but found support quickly on speculation that hot, dry weather conditions in parts of South America could hurt the crop there.

4.   Lafontaine floated the idea of managed exchange rates soon after his Social Democratic government was elected in September, but found little support.

5.   Regent Pacific called a meeting in March to replace Armstrong Jones Management Ltd. as the managers of the fund, but found little support from other unitholders.

6.   Soybeans were marginally lower but found support from talk that China had purchased some U.S. product.