101.   German officials said that low budget deficits are essential to contain inflation and interest rates, generating the right conditions for job creation.

102.   Gov. George Pataki said Tuesday that the deficit was not large enough to deter him from his goal of cutting state income taxes.

103.   Hashimoto roiled the market when he told the upper house budget committee that temporary deficit financing was unavoidable.

104.   Gros argues that the trade deficit was chiefly the result of excessive local demand, not the strong real.

105.   Guidotti said that in January the fiscal deficit was in line with goals that had been established with the Fund for this year.

106.   He thinks that high budget deficits are no big deal, and that the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates too high.

107.   His attitude is defiant, and that attitude makes his teammates believe that no deficit is too great, and that no challenge is impossible.

108.   House Republicans refused, saying the deficit should be smaller, not bigger.

109.   If deficits were bad and surpluses good, Japan would have long ago surpassed America as the biggest and strongest economy in the world.

110.   If Mourning had not been hit in the eye in Cleveland, there is no telling how large the deficit would have been.