11.   Agreeing on economic assumptions would be the first step in such a strategy.

12.   Bush has already used rosier economic assumptions in his plan.

13.   But much of the argument continued to focus on the side issue of economic assumptions.

14.   But that estimate was based only on differences in economic assumptions.

15.   But the old economic assumptions, the idea of job as birthright, are gone.

16.   Clinton said Thursday that he would agree to a nine-year path to a balanced budget but only using his own more optimistic economic assumptions.

17.   Domenici, however, predicted a disagreement over the economic assumptions immediately.

18.   During a White House briefing with reporters, Raines declined to lay out the specific economic assumptions underpinning the rosy new budget projections.

19.   Economic assumptions must be updated and new revenue projections made.

20.   For their part, Republicans say they want to use the economic assumptions of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office as the baseline for any agreement.