1.   He had heard, he said, that Republicans in Congress wanted to cut taxes for the affluent.

2.   It was, of course, one of the first images the film board wanted to cut, but it has been reinstated.

3.   People should focus, he says, not only on how much the two sides want to cut but on how much each wants to spend.

4.   The question of whether layoffs will be needed at all depends on whether those who want to go are working in the areas that BellSouth wants cut.