91.   Some Republicans had hoped to get through the first budget battle without directly addressing some of them.

92.   That agency prepares the estimates of revenues and spending that are the focus of the annual budget battle at City Hall.

93.   That could pay off in the budget battle that will stretch through much of the rest of the year.

94.   That suggests that the budget battle this year will focus less on whether big surpluses will actually materialize than on how to spend them.

95.   The administration, in its first budget battle with Congress, quickly retreated from initiatives to increase grazing fees on public lands and impose an energy tax.

96.   The anti-federal shutdown amendment is an outgrowth of the pair of record government closings during budget battles between Clinton and Capitol Hill during the last session of Congress.

97.   The budget battle between Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress is creating even more anxiety, Kohut added.

98.   The budget battle may continue for weeks.

99.   The budget battle took new twists and turns today.

100.   The budget battles that are resuming now in Washington are likely to look less like a slugfest than an exhibition of rope-a-dope.