1.   A vast American conglomerate has announced plans to buy the site at a cost of well over a billion dollars.

2.   ABC announced its plans for a new cable channel.

3.   About that time, according to news reports, state corrections officials announced surprise plans to re-bid all private-prison contracts.

4.   After Rush Limbaugh read the fax on his radio show, Gingrich announced plans to block the administration proposal.

5.   Alarcon announced plans to meet Saturday with Congress to name a Cabinet.

6.   An aide said Clinton will announce his plan Wednesday after conferring with a White House-led task force on climate change.

7.   He called its performance standards intolerable and announced plans to privatise it.

8.   It also announced plans to ease the regulatory burden on unions, and transfer their supervision to the Financial Services Authority.