1.   Moreover, such a requirement would discourage prosecutions for the aggravated offence and would exclude private prosecutions.

2.   They say such a requirement would place an unfair burden on them.

3.   Sole practitioners were most concerned about the cost implications of six-monthly reports, and some predicted business failures if such a requirement were introduced.

4.   Industry argued that such a requirement would stymie its competitiveness, and that, in any case, changes in emissions from existing plants would only ever be small-scale.

5.   The principal advantage of such a requirement is that it signals, in a formal way, that the procedure is under way.

6.   A committee of students, faculty and administrators submitted a report to Thomas and President Wayne Clough this week outlining issues surrounding such a requirement.

7.   A Fed official said later that such a requirement would make little business sense.

8.   Bush administration officials said they would soon propose such a requirement.

9.   Bush said such a requirement would be high among his priorities if re-elected.