11.   Moreover, Phillips argued that the federal government routinely fails to plan for disasters such as the current farm crisis by setting aside an adequate contingency fund.

12.   Republicans are trying to counter that by proposing to leave the tax cuts alone and fund the extra spending with what they call a contingency fund.

13.   School officials say that state law sharply limits the annual amount of such contingency funds.

14.   The administration has proposed creating the contingency fund to pay for future operations in the war against terrorism.

15.   The agency would then ask Congress for money for such projects when it had a large reserve or contingency fund that could have covered those costs.

16.   The best way to measure it is that for the percentage of work we have completed, we have used that same percentage of our contingency funds.

17.   The Army ordered tighter controls for the so-called contingency funds for the program.

18.   The company has created a contingency fund to cover potential losses from its Pralca investment, a spokeswoman said.

19.   The contingency fund is already oversubscribed by other commitments like defense, prescription drugs for the elderly and farm programs.

20.   The federal government used to offer supplemental grants and a contingency fund to help states with unexpectedly high caseloads, but both those programs expired in September.