21.   Such thinking engenders list upon list year after year of state rankings on spending for this and that fed eral, state or local government initiative.

22.   That, too, is favorable, because the Texas governor views states as laboratories of government initiatives.

23.   This sounds very clever, but it overlooks the fact that every government initiative, no matter how ridiculous or pathetic, has a legislator who loves it.

24.   What makes all this possible, of course, is an open-ended supply of money, which is always the problem with government initiatives of any sort.

25.   Other recent government initiatives, intended to stem the rapid rise of the yen and deal with bad loans at banks, have also been poorly received.

26.   A government initiative is under way to register immigrants, but only about half of the Albanians in the country have applied.

27.   Although it was able to block some government initiatives, it rarely achieved the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto.

28.   APTV has a special report on a US government initiative aimed at curbing teenage violence by helping both victims and perpetrators.

29.   At her meeting with Putin, parts of which were broadcast on ORT television, Matviyenko ticked off a list of recent government initiatives to combat the problem.

30.   But new technology is spurring all sorts of government initiatives to keep track of people.