91.   But Bush glossed over his intended spending cuts.

92.   But he switched course as military spending cuts following the end of the Cold War prompted consolidation in the defense industry.

93.   But Germany, too, is having trouble coming up with enough spending cuts to make this limit.

94.   But it has been bracketed with the arts endowment as the target of spending cuts and its budget has been reduced in recent years.

95.   But in developing countries, such fluctuations confront governments with stark choices that dwarf the typical legislative haggling in industrial democracies about spending cuts and tax increases.

96.   But now he says he will try to rally the House to find ways to meet the spending cut numbers.

97.   But others say the trust fund is merely a pile of IOUs that can be paid off only by future tax increases or spending cuts.

98.   But many Republicans say the spending cuts are good for the nation, even if they have been made in an unorthodox way.

99.   But the amendment would force spending cuts because of declining tax receipts, digging us deeper into the recession.

100.   But the Assembly Democrats are leery of deep tax cuts that will inhibit their ability to restore spending cuts that the governor has proposed in education and health care.