41.   The plan is the latest jolt to hospitals in New York City, which are already facing sharp cuts in federal and state spending for Medicaid and Medicare.

42.   The Republicans would pay for the larger plan with sharp cuts in other programs for the needy, including denying all aid to legal immigrants.

43.   The strikers say such a sharp cut would encourage building owners to dismiss higher-paid experienced workers and hire lower-paid newcomers in their place.

44.   This is the third year that Pataki has proposed far-reaching plans to scale back welfare benefits, including sharp cuts in monthly cash grants.

45.   Those include sharp cuts in after-school programs, counseling, junior varsity sports and summer school for all but graduating seniors.

46.   Thus far, sharp cuts in government salaries and pensions, and a growing dependence on scrip as money, have not set off significant social unrest.

47.   Though elsewhere in the region democracy has brought a sharp cut in defense spending, in Brazil such spending has increased.

48.   Thus, Republicans have also needed to resort to sharp cuts in projected payments to health providers in their Medicare savings legislation.

49.   Under the Clean Air Act, after receiving such petitions, the EPA can order sharp cuts in pollution at specific power plants or other sources.

50.   While many Iowans want Congress to spare agricultural subsidies and programs for the elderly from the budget ax, they favor sharp cuts in other areas.