1.   Based on their comments in the past, other union officials would apparently favor that recommendation as well.

2.   After the Racak killings in January, some U.S. officials favored airstrikes.

3.   But many State Department officials favor stepping up economic pressure and oppose any opening to Cuba when they say Castro has done little lately to deserve it.

4.   But State Department officials favored a broad interpretation of the legislation and won.

5.   Civilian Pentagon officials favor a plan in which the model of the Afghan campaign would be adapted to Iraq and expanded.

6.   Do officials favor the veteran Ranger stars who have celebrity status, as Devils coach Jacques Lemaire, and some of his players, have suggested?

7.   Even where corporate procurement officials favor traditional white suppliers, many blacks see cronyism, rather than racism.

8.   European Union officials favor turning communications over to the private sector.

9.   For the same reasons, government officials would probably favor a direct appeal to the Supreme Court.

10.   Instead, officials favor a longer-term effort to develop cars that will run on hydrogen-based fuel cells.