1.   He needs to spell out why a tax cut is going to help the average family of four.

2.   When the tax cut was going through Congress, the figures seemed too unimaginable to really resonate.

3.   The quality of research at the university lab has begun to retrogress since the massive budget cuts went into effect.

4.   Geoffrey Coombs wrote the letter after discovering that his school may have to lose a teacher if planned cuts to the education budget go ahead.

5.   Pupils, parents and teachers will now have to wait until a full meeting of Gloucestershire County Council next month to see whether the cuts will go ahead.

6.   There are calls for a defence review if the cuts go ahead.

7.   And although, ultimately, the North Americans are the best payers, many European players take a salary cut to go to the NBA.

8.   And the cuts may go into effect several weeks earlier than initially planned because of the widespread soft demand.

9.   As a political matter, that will be much harder to do if the cuts have already gone into effect.

10.   Archer said yesterday it is unlikely that any cut would go back that far.