The central government promotes public-private partnerships in water supply through guarantees and partial subsidies.

A second group of elderly, with incomes between $11,300 and $14,600, would get an unspecified partial subsidy for the cost of their coverage for prescription drugs.

Dismayed by the failures and the budget deficit, the Federal Government has offered instead less expensive programs of partial subsidy.

But it backed down after the strike and agreed to reintroduce a partial subsidy.

Mr. Bradley estimates that 84 percent of the nation's 11 million uninsured children would receive a full or partial subsidy.

Under the terms of the program, recent graduates who take low-paying public service jobs are to be eligible for partial or full subsidies of their student loans.

It sought partial subsidy in an effort to free the theater from undue dependence on the timidity of the box office.

Those earning up to 175 percent of the poverty level, about $15,000 a year, would get a partial subsidy.

Towns closer than 100 miles would get a partial subsidy - for bus service to a hub.

It also offers partial subsidies for private housing, assisting another 25,000 people, and administers federal Section 8 vouchers.