11.   It also has inflexible labor rules that inhibit job creation, a bloated government, inefficient state-run industries and uncompetitive private industries.

12.   Investors lost confidence in Asian economies riddled with corruption, banks with billions of dollars of bad debts, and bloated government spending.

13.   Like Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom had to transform itself at the time from a bloated government monopoly into a profit-oriented company.

14.   Plagued by an enormous deficit, scrambling to shrink a bloated government, Gov. George Pataki is right to insist that SUNY accept fiscal constraints.

15.   Republicans said the bill was a collection of liberal spending proposals that would do little for the economy and lead to a bloated government.

16.   The consequences of a bloated government, he said in an interview, include overcontrol of state enterprises, more opportunities for corruption and an increase in public costs.

17.   They said his administration would apply business discipline to a bloated government.

18.   Those guidelines include proposals to reduce a bloated government payroll and an expensive state pensions scheme.

19.   And I worry about a bloated federal government serving as a drag on economic growth.

20.   At the same time, Arafat has been spending millions of dollars to expand the already bloated government payroll to buy loyalty and repay favors.