1.   At a time of shrinking public budgets, city and state officials have faced criticism that they are too quick to grant tax breaks to retain employers.

2.   Clinton also won concessions from the GOP on his showcase proposal to grant tax breaks on college tuition.

3.   Few breaks are granted and water requests are often rejected.

4.   Given all that, maybe Harvard should reconsider and give Grant a break.

5.   It also means granting tax breaks, easing regulatory requirements and reducing paperwork, she said.

6.   Public opinion remains hostile to the idea of granting breaks on the basis of race or sex.

7.   That transaction would have carried no tax obligations because it qualified under a government program that granted tax breaks to owners who are members of minority groups.

8.   The commission said that Pirre, as tax assessor, granted tax breaks to the developers who hired his son.

9.   The growth of European museums is suffering, Garrels points out, because most European nations do not grant tax breaks for art donations.

10.   The new California agency can issue bonds, grant tax breaks, build its own power plants or potentially even seize control of commercially owned generators.