101.   They assumed that once the government ran out of excess reserves it would dip into the foreign cash that anchored the exchange rate.

102.   THREE YEARS OF DEFICITS EXPECTED The Bush administration said it expected the government to run budget deficits for at least the next three years.

103.   Today, the government is running a hefty surplus and paying down the national debt for the first time in decades.

104.   Traditional economic theory holds that governments should run a deficit during downturns.

105.   Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has said the government will run out of money in early November without additional borrowing.

106.   U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin -- who has said a U.S. default is unthinkable -- said today that the government will run out of cash by early November.

107.   Unless Congress raises that debt ceiling, the federal government will then run out of cash, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said.

108.   Unlike last year, when the impasse between Congress and the White House over the budget constrained spending, the government is currently running on a permanent spending plan.

109.   Unless the debt limit is raised, the government would run out of money by mid-November, according to the latest Treasury Department estimates.

110.   With the economy mired in recession, Wall Street and Argentine citizens worry that the government may be running out of options other than to devalue the peso.