1.   The results of the quarries in Northern Ireland was again undermined by a reduction in contracting workload due to altered Government spending priorities.

2.   The Defence Secretary also said that now he had been in the post a year, he was reviewing defence spending priorities to see if they were correct.

3.   And studies show that most governors use the veto not to hold down spending, but to enforce their own spending priorities over those of legislators, he said.

4.   And they will have a greater say in shaping spending priorities.

5.   As a result, the province will face significant challenges in reconciling its spending priorities with the need to balance its books, it said.

6.   As a result, many people are shifting their spending priorities, or at least thinking about it.

7.   Both the president and GOP congressional leaders are vowing to avoid the stalemate over spending priorities that provoked two partial shutdowns of federal operations last year.

8.   Administration officials defended the arrangement as a sound deal that would help the city solve its immediate budget problem while not necessarily binding it to any spending priorities.

9.   After all, they have said, Pataki and the new Republican majority on the Council changed spending priorities in the budget after taking office.

10.   Bush spoke favorably of the plan last week and said he has not endorsed it because he has other education spending priorities.