21.   Overall, however, the budget projections in the White House and Congressional Budget Office reports differed only slightly.

22.   Polls show that a subsidized prescription drug benefit is extremely popular with the public and the new budget surplus projections afford Clinton the luxury of proposing it.

23.   Raines said the difference in the CBO and OMB budget projections resulted largely from different estimates of how fast the economy would grow over the next five years.

24.   Republicans have been aided by swiftly expanding budget surplus projections, which they said buttress their arguments that some of the federal surplus should be returned to taxpayers.

25.   So the wary budget projections give Davis some welcome political running room.

26.   Tax cuts are always popular on Capitol Hill during an election year, and rosy federal budget projections have made tax cuts especially hard to resist.

27.   The bite-sized portions, however, appear easier to swallow, and growing budget surplus projections make them go down even more smoothly.

28.   The administration knew it would come under heavy criticism for substituting its budget projections for those of the Congressional Budget Office.

29.   The budget office projections served to divert attention from the analysis of prominent economists who contend that the situation is even more dire.

30.   The Congressional Budget Office, in its most recent budget projection, projects a similar -- if lower growth path for the economy.