31.   That means that there will be pressure to cut spending, to raise taxes and fees or to accomplish a little of both.

32.   The budget would violate terms of the IMF loans, which call for the government to cut spending and run a surplus.

33.   The bill will include a numerical target for reducing the fiscal deficit as well as an annual target to cut spending, he said.

34.   The Central Unica dos Trabalhadores decided not to sign a pact with two other Brazilian labor groups that would cut federal spending on pension payments.

35.   The Republicans and the White House have reduced their differences over how much to cut projected spending on government health insurance programs.

36.   The Republicans want to cut projected spending on Medicaid three times as much as Clinton.

37.   The president said he would use a second term to cut spending on social security and public payrolls, in addition to selling off state companies.

38.   The tax increases drove consumers and companies to cut spending and weighed on corporate profits and stock prices.

39.   Those moves have brought criticism from bond analysts who have been urging the state to take substantive steps to cut spending.

40.   To pay off the bonds, it will have to increase taxes, cut spending from other areas or take out additional debt.