21.   The budget contains new income tax proposals and customs tariffs for the financial year beginning April One.

22.   The budget contained little information about which programs those would be, and decisions on that will be made in later bills.

23.   The budget contained a hodgepodge of new measures that will raise many taxes and lower many others.

24.   The budget contained few surprises.

25.   The government budget this month contained changes in tax and benefit measures designed to make work more attractive than welfare.

26.   Top Senate Democrats, who say the budget contains an overly large tax cut and too little for schools and other programs, refused to concede.

27.   Economists said that the budget contained few surprises.

28.   The science budget also contains one billion dollars for Energy Department general science programs, mostly in high-energy and nuclear physics.

29.   Water and electricity shares fell sharply on weekend press reports that the budget would contain a windfall tax on privatised utility profits.

30.   London operators expect the British budget to contain tax cuts, a fact that should help boost the economy.