41.   Major on-line brokers, meanwhile, want big cuts in what they pay for data.

42.   Nevertheless, at least one company is trying to circumvent brokers by using the Internet, offering a big cut in commissions as a lure.

43.   On the flip side, Democrats say the lost tax revenue would force big cuts in federal spending on everything from national parks to the Head Start preschool program.

44.   Of course, if you make too big a cut, you shut off the flow of nutrients completely and the flower will die.

45.   Party aides said the Senate leaders saw no possibility of passing a big cut because they probably could not muster the votes required.

46.   Retail and transportation workers also took big cuts.

47.   Republicans, however, argued that interest rates should decline if the ultimate outcome of the dispute between the parties is a big cut in spending.

48.   Slocumb reared back and heaved three fastballs in a row, and McGwire took a big cut at each one and disrupted a lot of air in the process.

49.   She is proposing big cuts in state spending, a holiday from sales taxes for parents buying school clothes and supplies, and a new school reform plan.

50.   Some changes were made, including a big cut in the personal income tax, but much of the package was torn up.