1.   Backers credit it for everything from reducing welfare rolls to reviving tourism.

2.   A lack of jobs, transportation or child care in rural areas makes it tough to further reduce the rolls in some areas.

3.   All seek to reduce the rolls and to nudge the poor from welfare to work.

4.   Both Republicans and Democrats have patted themselves on the back for reducing welfare rolls.

5.   But most have placed a greater stress on simply reducing the rolls.

6.   He has worked to reduce welfare rolls by scrutinizing the eligibility of recipients and requiring home relief recipients to work.

7.   Reducing the roll of a ship cuts both the extent and frequency of motion.

8.   President Bill Clinton, trumpeting a record drop in the number of people on welfare, challenged U.S. businesses to reduce the rolls further by hiring welfare recipients.

9.   States could qualify for block grants either by placing a high percentage of recipients into jobs, a costly exercise, or by reducing welfare rolls.

10.   State officials have contended that tougher work programs in rural areas have reduced welfare rolls.