So we're glad they favor reduced spending and avoiding higher taxes.

But they often favor more spending on services they want: education, health care, medical research, highways, police, air traffic control.

Large majorities also favored increased Federal spending for education and job creation.

Holden favored greater spending on state elementary and secondary education.

She favors increased military spending, while he favors cuts.

It favored public spending on social programs and high taxes on the well-to-do.

Mr. Abrams has consistently denied that he favors increased spending.

In 1980, a majority of Americans favored higher military spending; by 1988 only 15 percent did.

Republicans, for the most part, opposed tax increases and favored less spending on social programs.

He has also portrayed the governor as a liberal who favors gun control and higher spending.

Some lawmakers favor spending most of the money in coastal states, where offshore drilling for oil and gas produce the Federal revenue to pay for land conservation.

The clearest shift has come from Mr. Bruno, a Republican, who began the year saying he favored spending about one-third of the tobacco money on health care.

When asked recently, the governor, a Republican, declined to say whether he still favored spending the settlement money on debt reduction, and would not offer anything in its place.

Only about 11 percent of Americans favor spending the surplus on a tax cut, while about 70 percent favor spending it on Social Security or debt repayment.

The President and the Democratic lawmakers also favor spending more on health and education programs.

Nor is it likely that the Emperor will favor spending the golds necessary to maintain the northern outposts in the way suggested by your report, Commanders.

Felix G. Rohatyn, the chairman of the assistance corporation, has said that he favors spending the money on education, though he has stopped short of endorsing specific proposals.

But environmentalists point to surveys showing that most Alaskans favor spending most of the fund on wilderness.

Mr. Bonner said he was skeptical of current drug treatment methods but said he favored spending more on research to develop better approaches.

Expectations on Spending Mr. Reich also elaborated on his disclosure Tuesday that the President favored spending about $20 billion to stimulate the economy.