11.   After next year, those settlement payments will not be earmarked for the general fund that is used to support basic government operations.

12.   Both parties routinely agreed for decades to spend excess Social Security payroll tax revenues on general government operations.

13.   But first as a state legislator and then as House speaker, she established a take-charge reputation, heading committees on government operations, economic development and ethics.

14.   But government relief operations were a disaster.

15.   But if the private sector is getting back into shape, over-manned government operations pose even greater challenges for Jospin.

16.   But that data involves secret government operations, Army and CIA doings, and the FBI is not on the need-to-know list.

17.   Critics call the northern border patrol a perfect example of a government operation with too much money and not enough to do.

18.   Danforth should have examined the appropriateness of the entire government operation, Clark said.

19.   Despite his political problems, Clinton is right to insist on legislation free of objectionable attachments to keep government operations going past Friday.

20.   Earlier this month, a nonprofit New York City good-government group issued a report that complained about the difficulty of getting data on city government operations.