1.   A persistent critic of profligate government, he now has his chance to trim the deficit.

2.   The job of central bankers would be easier if governments trimmed their budget deficits as soon as recovery was under way.

3.   And in Sweden, the ruling Social Democrats are cutting welfare spending to trim the deficit.

4.   As for Clinton, he got no closer to his professed goal of trimming the deficit on his handicap.

5.   Asians, bolstered by some big-name Western economists, blamed the IMF for worsening the crisis by forcing big spending cuts to trim deficits.

6.   A splurge that trimmed the deficit to five points in the final minute could not hide the fact that the Red Storm players still have much to learn.

7.   Bush was defeated for reelection by the right wing of the Republican Party because he trimmed the deficit on the eve of the Gulf War.

8.   But they said the patent study was part of continuing research on science trends that began long before the current push to trim the deficit.

9.   Economic activity is also being restrained by government efforts to trim budget deficits to meet the tough fiscal conditions for European monetary union.

10.   Hashimoto, who has made trimming the deficit a top priority, is politically very weak.