Ford has already agreed to undertake a comprehensive cleanup of the remaining material.

The F.C.C. was not going for a comprehensive cleanup.

Mr. Deering said that vapor intrusion was "just another indication of the importance of a thorough investigation and a comprehensive cleanup and monitoring program."

They did a very comprehensive cleanup.

His aides would say only that he told Mrs. Whitman he favored a "comprehensive cleanup."

Including carbon dioxide reductions in a comprehensive cleanup plan now is the most efficient and least costly way to address the threat of global warming.

"We are trying to figure out what the long-term implications are," he said, "and what needs to be done in terms of comprehensive cleanup."

Most industry experts now agree that hewing to the $15 billion figure delayed a comprehensive cleanup of the largest financial scandal in the nation's history, and so drastically increased its cost.

Now, with the support of Councilman Morton Povman, the city has promised $455,000 to finance a comprehensive cleanup, starting in the spring of 1995.

New York's Attorney General, Eliot L. Spitzer, has said he will go to court if necessary to force G.E. to pay for a comprehensive cleanup.