91.   Balaguer has personally controlled the national budget and stacked the judiciary with his supporters.

92.   Authorities doubled interest rates, raised taxes and slashed the national budget in a slowdown that is expected to last at least through the first half of this year.

93.   Bank governor Svein Gjedrem said a tight national budget for this year and signs that the economy was cooling off made it possible to reduce interest rates.

94.   Besides adoption of the national budget, the lengthy session will also take up some legislative businesses, including the Upazila Bill.

95.   Both sides have made expensive election promises which many economists say cannot be covered by the national budget.

96.   Both countries spend more than one-third of their national budgets on defense, while millions of people on both sides of the border live in gripping poverty.

97.   Both sides have made expensive election promises which many economists say can not be covered by the national budget.

98.   Both countries spend more than one third of their national budgets on defense, while millions of people on both sides of the border live in gripping poverty.

99.   But as soon as he returned to work, another battle with Parliament over his proposed national budget had his government on the verge of falling.

100.   But he said Georgia would not resort to printing money to compensate for losses to the national budget.