1.   Work had been done in the Treasury before the war on the introduction of a counter-cyclical element into public spending to help stabilise employment.

2.   But both iPhrase and Verilytics are optimistic corporations will conclude that incremental spending to help find needles in data haystacks will make irresistibly good business sense.

3.   For now, these Democratic proposals appear to have little chance of stopping the Republican drive to rein in Medicare and Medicaid spending to help balance the federal budget.

4.   It is a disturbing prospect to conservationists, parks officials and those lawmakers who support increased spending to help the parks address their backlog of maintenance problems.

5.   Some spending on government benefit programs would automatically rise in a recession, and politicians would be under pressure to increase other spending to help those in need.

6.   Spending on government benefit programs would automatically rise in a recession, and politicians would be under pressure to increase other spending to help those in need.

7.   The elections are expected to boost inflation, since Turkish governments typically rely on a bout of pre-election spending to help win votes, economists said.

8.   The White House has also asked Congress to take money allocated for defense spending to help pay education and other domestic programs.

9.   Thursday, Hashimoto is expected to formally announce the details of a plan to cut taxes and increase spending to help revive economic growth.

10.   In a national teleconference, Premier Li Peng has issued orders for all departments throughout China to rein in public spending to help curb soaring prices.