The proposals advocated by the report seem to have had mixed outcomes; while its nutritional and exercise recommendations are believed to have been widely accepted, there remains disagreement about its overall impact on population health.

But legislation based on many of the proposals advocated by Mr. Lehman failed to gain support in Congress earlier this year, and the plan covering copyrights for data bases goes far beyond any copyright law now on the books.

Last May, one proposal advocated by some lower-level Pentagon officials advocated covert support for Iranian resistance groups to destabilize Iran's powerful clergy.

The leading proposals advocated by Republicans fall into three categories.

A8 The U.S. would cut aid to El Salvador by as much as 30 percent under a proposal quietly being advocated by the Bush Administration.

In January, the Supreme Court rejected a proposal advocated by the Clinton Administration that would have allowed the Government to use statistical methods, like sampling, to adjust the count.

A proposal, advocated by Mayor Dennis Archer and G.M., would relocate city offices from several downtown sites into the original 1.1-million-square-foot G.M. headquarters in the New Center district.

Charter schools are hardly the only proposal being advocated by parents and educators searching for alternatives.

The internal proposal advocated by wildlife biologists, the memorandum said, "does not require actual injury, death or nest abandonment" - merely the likelihood of such an outcome.

No longer is the proposal being advocated just by academics and minority or opposition groups.