1.   Another imponderable is how deep budget knives might cut.

2.   Arguing that you help create jobs is a favorite maneuver to avoid the budget knife.

3.   But it makes no economic or budgetary sense to apply the budget knife to every program on the federal books just because Republicans want to score some political points.

4.   In his previous budgets, Giuliani has spared some agencies the budget knife, particularly the Police and Fire Departments.

5.   Several programs dear to the labor movement face the budget knife in this bill.

6.   Several programs dear to the labor movement face the budget knife.

7.   Some investors said the franc will stabilize once investors are convinced the French government means business when it wields the budget knife.

8.   The embattled Animas La Plata water project has once again survived the congressional budget knife.

9.   Wielding the federal budget knife as a congressman, Gramm developed a reputation for heartlessness, slicing programs for the elderly, the infirm and the poor.