71.   On the day he was named budget director for the newly elected President Bush, Richard Darman took a call from Greenspan.

72.   Over a day and a half, Lieberman wrote to Raines about the matter and called Jacob Lew, the deputy budget director.

73.   One is the budget director, Alice Rivlin, nominated to be Fed vice chairman, and the other is Laurence Meyer, an economic forecaster.

74.   One of the most important is Franklin Raines, a Harvard chum who has the crucial job of budget director.

75.   Panetta served in Congress for almost two decades before joining the Clinton administration, first as budget director, then chief of staff.

76.   Presidential budgets used to be more meaningful, said Charles L. Schultze, who was budget director for President Lyndon B. Johnson.

77.   Raines, who took over as budget director in September, said expressed optimism about the potential for progress.

78.   Robert Reischauer, who served as budget director for Congress when it was under Democratic control, offered only a slightly more upbeat assessment.

79.   San Diego recently hired a former prosecutor, while a former city budget director runs the Chicago schools.

80.   She discovered the shortfall after she took over from former budget director Judy Peck in February.