1.   And he has proposed a freeze on funding for the critically important class-size reduction program for New York City.

2.   Announcing its deficit reduction program, the Yeltsin government Friday named a tough-minded former finance administrator to head the state tax Service.

3.   British Gas said the introduction of a new billing and customer service system has required additional staff and facilities and therefore has slowed its cost reduction program.

4.   But the debt reduction program has been too stingy.

5.   Commuters, who are already the beneficiaries of a huge state property-tax reduction program, will get a small boost in their take-home pay.

6.   Critics there have charged that the service reductions are too severe and say the two-year Medicaid reduction program should be stopped.

7.   Digital said it has implemented a cost reduction program and expects to see improved fourth-quarter results.

8.   Eggleton said he thought the budget deficit reduction program would cause short-term rates to fall.

9.   Ellis consulted Dr. Francine Welty, medical director of cardiovascular risk reduction programs at Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

10.   George Ronan, a clinical psychologist in Mount Pleasant, Mich., targets anger in his violence reduction program at Central Michigan University.