1.   During the past Decade, state expenditure on prisons has risen by nearly a third.

2.   Second, forms of state expenditure corresponding to each of these functions are identified.

3.   The growing pressure to reduce state expenditure on space projects continued to stimulate Soviet space agencies and scientists in their search for alternative sources of financing.

4.   This involves state expenditure on social capital.

5.   Therefore state expenditure tends to increase faster than revenues.

6.   State expenditure on health services is directed towards both of these ends.

7.   The development of the public enterprise sector has been a major cause of the crisis of state expenditure in Spain.

8.   As concern over state expenditure mounted, governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways.

9.   Chubais is leading the Ministry of Finance, which neatly consolidates decisions on all state expenditures in his hands.