1.   Despite the continuing Decline in the workforce there has not been a corresponding reduction in the number of tractors found on farms.

2.   So increases in state spending were largely offset by corresponding reductions by taxpayers.

3.   In general terms, the legislation funnels to districts additional state money and then requires them to make a corresponding reduction in property taxes.

4.   The cost of such a waiver, however, would be corresponding reductions in spending on family planning aid.

5.   The former oil company manager and retiree in The Woodlands feared new government spending on costly prescription drugs could mean a corresponding reduction in other Medicare programs.

6.   The talks will also have to deal with disarming the IRA and making a corresponding reduction in the British army presence in the North.