1.   Reduce the deficit through tax increases and some spending restraints.

2.   Analysts said spending restraint was among the few options.

3.   As Texas governor, Bush never had to lobby for spending restraints because of ample state revenues.

4.   -- None favored tax cuts without spending restraint.

5.   But he is expected to dwell only briefly on the painful spending restraints needed to reach that goal.

6.   But it is difficult for him to argue for spending restraint while providing a virtual blank check on defense and homeland security.

7.   But those forecasts assume spending restraint that Congress is not showing.

8.   Clinton and Dole are willing to talk about spending restraints for Medicare, which would otherwise be the first big program for the elderly to go bust.

9.   Debt reduction paired with spending restraint would have an equally prudent outcome.

10.   Despite these nits, the Wisconsin contest remains a model of spending restraint, compared with campaigns in most other states.