However, Congressionally imposed reductions to FY 1992-93 funding requirements forced NASA to terminate the Planetary Observer program, with just the Mars Observer funded.

Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger replied in a letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, that "the Administration reluctantly accepts the congressionally imposed conditions."

"It is a major victory for home rule that I was able to avoid the imposition of a Congressionally imposed city manager," Ms. Norton said in a statement.

The decision comes a month before a Congressionally imposed deadline for libraries to install filters or lose the federal Internet financing.

In 1988, it reduced retail window service to meet a Congressionally imposed budget cut.

A number of factors appear to have influenced the recent turnaround, among them a Supreme Court decision in June that upheld Congressionally imposed decency standards for the endowment.

This system seeks to allocate Congressionally imposed cuts in American funds for these agencies so that the bulk of the economies fall on organizations the Administration thinks are least useful to the United States.

As a Congressionally imposed deadline takes effect today for legal services lawyers to withdraw from class-action lawsuits, a prominent civil liberties lawyer is challenging the constitutionality of the measure.

Mr. Celec and other officials said that existing, congressionally imposed restrictions on research were chilling potential progress in the field of nuclear weapons science.

They argue that Mr. Hyde's involvement may also have influenced his strong, if ultimately unsuccessful, effort to block Congressionally imposed changes in bank accounting laws that hurt Clyde Federal and many other savings-and-loans.