11.   At issue is whether parochial schools may benefit from a federal education assistance program providing computers and other equipment to schools.

12.   At a time when energy costs are rising, the budget freezes instead of increasing funds for a low-income energy assistance program.

13.   At the same time, my colleagues keep wanting to cut low-income energy assistance programs.

14.   At the very least, we have to have a health care program and a mortgage assistance program.

15.   At Pharmacia, officials will not divulge information about how many patients receive help from the medication assistance program, or how much the company spends on in it.

16.   At the same time, I was trying to run a humanitarian assistance program, and I found these two functions incompatible.

17.   Barry Bitzer, a spokesman for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said the Texas Republican had supported funding for the energy assistance program in the past.

18.   Blatter has cultivated support from African and Latin American countries, in part by funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into special assistance programs for poor nations.

19.   Block grants to the states also would replace the main federal cash assistance program for poor women and children known as the Aid To Families With Dependent Children program.

20.   -- Several states, led by Mississippi, filed lawsuits against tobacco companies seeking to recover funds spent by state medical assistance programs on the treatment of diseased smokers.