31.   District lawyers argued that the talent flight gathered momentum as the district closed buildings and cut programs, reduced the magnet school system and returned to predominantly neighborhood schools.

32.   Dinkins offered a list of alternatives to cutting social programs, mostly by squeezing more productivity from the Police Department and municipal unions.

33.   Efforts to cut the program failed last year on the House and Senate floors.

34.   Each coach whose program was cut reacted differently.

35.   Every politician knows that it is easier to take away promised tax relief that has not yet been enjoyed than to raise actual taxes or cut existing programs.

36.   Experts figure that to do so, he would have to cut domestic programs, including educational aid, by one third.

37.   For example, do Americans support spending billions of dollars for a missile defense system while domestic programs are cut to balance the budget?

38.   Foreign aid programs are unpopular when Congress is cutting domestic programs.

39.   GOP critics have equated such aid with welfare and some argue it is wrong to cut domestic programs without cutting foreign ones.

40.   He blasted Republicans for attempts to cut the program.