The proposal is consistent with Dr. Wilensky's longstanding views on the most efficient means of delivering medical services to consumers.

"Some of us were looking for this for a long time," he said, alluding to his longstanding view that the stock market was just too overvalued.

The two sides' longstanding conflicting views on Kashmir bedeviled their attempts at compromise.

But a senior American official said that the State Department had not dropped its longstanding view that the training plan was impractical.

Much recent economic research has called into question the longstanding view that increasing the minimum wage is undermined by resulting job losses.

Mr. Bush seems acutely aware of that, although his advisers say he is simply holding to his longstanding views.

It caps a series of findings that refute the longstanding view that no new cells are formed in the adult brain.

A spokesman for Mr. Lugar said it reflected longstanding views.

The data also call into question a longstanding view about just which brain structures link together to form the "limbic system," which regulates emotional life.

The longstanding view does not appear to have been altered by what Mr. Sisulu found on his return.