91.   Failure to agree would allow the government to pay down the huge federal debt by a small amount, thus reducing the burden on future generations.

92.   For the moment, most independents, still recovering from the earlier era of cheap oil, are focused on paying down debt, and otherwise improving their finances.

93.   For Cablevision, the investment gives its Rainbow Media Holdings Inc. unit funds to pay down debt.

94.   From here, though, it faces the difficult choice of paying down debt or increasing capital spending to develop badly needed new models, he said.

95.   From here, though, it faces the difficult choice of paying down debt or increasing capital spending to develop badly-needed new models, he said.

96.   GAM said it plans to use the proceeds of the sale to pay down part of its debt and strengthen its balance sheet.

97.   Geffen said DreamWorks had even begun paying down the money it had borrowed from Chase Manhattan.

98.   GOP leaders said they would write their own budget that also protects Social Security and pays down the debt but provides bigger tax cuts and less spending.

99.   Gore has proposed keeping the Social Security system fiscally sound by adding funds from the projected federal budget surplus and savings from paying down the debt.

100.   Gore has proposed spending all of the federal budget surplus attributed to Social Security to pay down the national debt.