41.   If the government is not running things, exactly, at least it is taking a close look.

42.   If the market reformers win, it will be largely because the government has run out of cash to keep priming the pump.

43.   If the economy goes into a downturn, is it safer to have the government running up debt, or the citizenry?

44.   In a recent Field Poll here in California, nearly a third of the respondents said that government ran better when power was divided.

45.   In any case, in a surprise to most analysts and a boon to Gore, the government is now running a huge surplus.

46.   In early March, the government ran out of money to deal with the emergency.

47.   In past years, when the government ran deficits, Congress routinely spent extra receipts from Social Security taxes to run federal programs.

48.   In Detroit, for example, the municipal government runs the Detroit American Indian Health Center, while the state of Michigan runs the Bureau of Urban Indian Affairs.

49.   In November, the government will run out of money to pay its bills unless Congress and the president agree to increase the debt limit.

50.   In Russia, where even the government routinely runs months behind in paying wages and other obligations, this means that most companies are candidates for receivership.