41.   Officials hope to replace the fallen trees, although there is so far no money for it in the national budget.

42.   One is that the Air Force is struggling with the rest of the Pentagon for its image and its slice of the national budget in these years of peace.

43.   Reflecting the will of the people in the national budget is basic to the principle of democracy.

44.   Sen. Russ Feingold targets items in the national budget that constitute unnecessary funding, such as a helium production subsidy, and strives to eliminate the program.

45.   So many areas of the national budget have been declared untouchable that there is little money left to affect the economy, except around the edges.

46.   So intense did the debate get that passage of the national budget was held up for several weeks in parliament over the housing lender issue.

47.   Such distortions in national budgets contribute to poverty and retard human development.

48.   Still, the economy and the national budget are highly vulnerable to the ups and downs of international oil prices.

49.   That authority includes collecting taxes, compiling the national budget, supervising banks and brokerages and guiding interest rate policy.

50.   Such a level of inflation drove interest rates way up, straining debt-service costs in the national budget.