It is unclear whether Mr. Spitzer will embrace the commission's other recommendations, including starting a $3 billion fund for research grants, modestly raising tuitions across the system and allowing individual campuses to raise prices further.
While Ms. Segarra said the board should move to a "year by year" process of amending its capital plan, she declined to embrace the commission's recommendation that the board give up its authority over construction.
But Mr. Chirac embraced the commission's recommendation to pass a law banning "conspicuous" religious symbols but allowing "discreet" ones.
Mr. Kerry embraced the commission from the beginning, and now argues that many of the ideas it endorsed, particularly the creation of an intelligence czar, would have been adopted long ago if he were in office.
The plan stopped short of embracing the commission's recommendation to create a human intelligence directorate, a step that C.I.A. officials had feared would undermine the authority of the agency's directorate of operations.
Merrill also has embraced low-commission online trading after a bruising internal battle over whether the firm should compete head-on with the leading online brokerage firm, the Charles Schwab Corporation, and a raft of low-priced competition.
Three years ago, scientists had embraced the commission's initial draft of the legislation, which strives to harmonize privacy rules for data collection, storage, and exchange across the continent.
Beck testified Monday that he embraced the commission's decision, even though it differed from his own.
It would be much better for parliament to embrace the McKay commission's sensible proposals on the handling of English affairs at Westminster – proposals which involve no major legislation – while taking time to get the bigger, possibly federal, approach right.
While Mr. Obama told lawmakers that the parties must come together to make the necessary tough choices, his decision not to embrace the fiscal commission's report as the basis for immediate bipartisan talks disappointed many centrist, anti-deficit groups — even as it pleased liberal activists who have been lobbying against the recommendations.
