41.   She is proposing big cuts in state spending, a holiday from sales taxes for parents buying school clothes and supplies, and a new school reform plan.

42.   The administration has proposed the cut as part of its balanced-budget package, sending stocks of companies providing home oxygen therapy services tumbling.

43.   The GOP resolutions also propose unspecified cuts within a large category of expenditures that includes higher education, Head Start and Labor Department training services.

44.   The president already has some authority to propose cuts in spending bills but Congress is not required to act on his suggestions.

45.   The plan does not propose new cuts for the Medicaid program, a first for Pataki.

46.   The Republicans will still have to propose large cuts in projected spending for Medicare if they hope to balance the budget.

47.   The Russians have proposed drastic cuts in such armaments, but in return, do not want the United States to build a missile-defense system.

48.   This holiday season, the new leadership in Congress is proposing deep cuts in assistance to the impoverished.

49.   They propose huge cuts in Medicare, but fail to propose specific reforms of the program or of the health care system to achieve the savings.

50.   Those cuts were proposed by the Republican Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.