11.   Both Domenici and Kasich have focused strictly on balancing the budget and cutting the deficit.

12.   Bond investors are taking comfort in a government commitment to avoid new spending and cut its deficit, making an economic stimulus package unlikely anytime soon.

13.   Brady bonds fell for the fourth straight session amid concerns that Argentina may have trouble pushing through an austerity program designed to cut its deficit.

14.   -- Suspicious of tax increases but willing to support them in order to cut the deficit.

15.   A budget accord which cuts the deficit would increase confidence in U.S. assets and generate demand for dollars.

16.   A German rate cut would give European economies some breathing room in their efforts to cut budget deficits and trim unemployment.

17.   A stagnant economy and soaring unemployment have left the German government struggling to cut its deficit and debt to the levels required of single-currency participants.

18.   Almost as soon as Pierce returned, Boston began cutting its deficit.

19.   But a pair of free throws by Traylor and three layups by Bullock cut the deficit to three points.

20.   But by halftime, the patient Redbirds remained poised in the absence of the press and cut the deficit to three.