Some of its early recommendations have already been taken to heart.

The earlier recommendation was based on data from the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast in 1945.

Even so, the earlier recommendations never made it to the floor of the bishops' conference for debate and a vote.

In an extraordinary action, a United States Government panel has since pulled back the earlier recommendation.

It has rejected, for example, an earlier recommendation to limit sugar intake to 10 percent of a regular diet.

Passage of the legislation, based on the earlier recommendation of the working group, was "facilitated by the consensus surrounding a single alternative" for a national register.

The firm's recommendation that 20 percent should stay in cash and securities, such as short-term Treasury bills, was unchanged from its earlier recommendations.

The regulations as proposed also omit an earlier recommendation that discouraged donations by people older than 55.

But it drops his earlier recommendations to consolidate all space operations under the Air Force.

The committee did not change any of the earlier recommendations but did alter some of the language in an executive summary of the findings.