1.   And there are better ways to spend it than watching arrested adolescents tug at their crotches and spit.

2.   Again, welfare mothers and their children account for far less spending than one might think.

3.   But Democratic legislators said they were concerned less by the pace of spending than by the lack of input from the public or the Legislature in choosing projects.

4.   But more and more people are using this service to control spending than to get around credit problems.

5.   But Reeves played down the possibility that the Falcons would go on a spending spree, even though they have more money to spend than most teams.

6.   But they said they remained intent on moving much farther and faster on cutting taxes and spending than Clinton had proposed.

7.   But while no one was paying attention, an even greater amount of government spending than envisioned in the stimulus measure happened anyway.

8.   But wider share-ownership also means that swings in share prices may have a bigger effect on other sorts of spending than in the past.

9.   By most measures, he said, gains in the stock market remain more important to increases in consumer spending than those from housing or any other asset market.

10.   Energy prices have been rising, but the Fed has been more worried about the higher costs in terms of consumer spending than in any inflation risk.