1.   The scope for immediate cuts in spending is slim and a majority of economists think about half of the money for tax cuts will come from the contingency reserve.

2.   The government will free its contingency reserves of grain but that would only suffice for a couple of weeks, Premier Stefan Sofiyanski announced on national television late Friday.

3.   There can be no absolute definition of what an adequate level of contingency reserves is.

4.   To meet the demands, the government released contingency reserves and imported grain from Romania, Serbia and India.

5.   Factored into both these predictions is three billion dollars a year that Martin said will be put into a contingency reserve to handle unforeseeable monetary or fiscal crises.