So in September 1992, the F.A.A. sharply scaled back its proposal.

They now say they have scaled back their proposal, but it may be too late.

He has since scaled back his original proposal and will hire only 250 officers due to the effects of the economic recession on the state's budget.

To pay for that change, the conferees scaled back Senator Bentsen's proposal to expand the availability of tax-deferred individual retirement accounts.

Mr. Kasich acknowledged this week that he was still scaling back his proposal.

To address their objections, Mrs. Whitman agreed with Republican legislative leaders to scale back her proposal.

Now, a coalition of civic groups has persuaded Donald Trump to scale back his first proposal, a dense design that included the tallest building in the world.

Mr. Pataki appeared willing to scale back his proposal.

Democrats said today that political considerations had forced them to scale back their earlier proposal to offer drug benefits to all 40 million people on Medicare.

They'd look like utter fools if they didn't admit there was some necessity to scale back their proposal.