The production was canceled when producers failed to raise sufficient funding to cover expensive and "extensive technical requirements for film and multi-media projection" during a major recession.

Each of them, however, raises certain basic requirements of a conceptual and empirical kind.

Union officials said that improving teachers' performance was important as the state raised academic requirements.

Even after the department raised its standards and requirements, about 20,000 people took a test in May to qualify for the academy, he said.

Other states raising academic requirements must also now decide if their constitutions allow schools to be financed at levels too low for all students to succeed.

As commandant, he emphasized quality in the ranks, raising educational requirements for recruits and trying to screen out physically unfit young men seeking to enlist.

Proposed or approved measures include raising excise taxes and requirements that ingredients and health hazards be disclosed.

The N.C.A.A. should be moving more rapidly to raise academic requirements before our universities lose credibility.

More moderate analysts have focused on raising the federal fuel-efficiency requirements for light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, to the same level as those for passenger cars.

Dr. Boyer's report helped focus the ensuing discussion on specific plans like raising requirements for high school graduation, improving teacher certification and lengthening the school day.