81.   Clinton, who has been criticized by some for ending the federal welfare program for poor children that Roosevelt began, made no direct allusion to his own record.

82.   Citing that optimistic climate, some minority leaders say they do not expect welfare programs to attract new racial hostility.

83.   City lawyers said Friday that the city hoped to alleviate any problems in its welfare programs by redeploying some workers from other departments.

84.   Congressional Republicans contend that with looming budget deficits the nation cannot afford to support Medicaid and other social welfare programs if the costs grow at current rates.

85.   Clinton, a former governor of Arkansas, has often expressed support for governors seeking more flexibility to devise and run social welfare programs.

86.   Cut federal spending for welfare programs.

87.   Cutting money for welfare programs has become acceptable in Washington, D.C.

88.   Currently, counties have responsibility but little flexibility in deciding how to administer welfare programs.

89.   Crippled by a childhood disease, Ryogo Hashimoto was elected to Parliament and became a champion of social welfare programs.

90.   Democrats like nonsocial welfare programs, too.