51.   New York City is cutting core services like sanitation and schools in a desperate effort to ease its budget crisis.

52.   None by themselves will resolve a budget crisis, but they can, officials say, help to preserve services that would otherwise be lost.

53.   Now the city and state budget crises have forced the university to curtail many programs, including remedial instruction in reading, writing and mathematics.

54.   Organizations such as the American Cancer Society filed lawsuits against the state after tobacco money was diverted to medical services during budget crises.

55.   Others are banking on the budget crisis in Washington to increase voter dissatisfaction with Dole.

56.   Others saw the ambitions of those who would like to be president behind the budget crisis.

57.   Realizing this, what do you do when faced with a special session to solve the budget crisis?

58.   Regardless of a budget crisis, security measures will receive top priority, Bush said.

59.   Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., in the well of the Senate during debate on the budget crisis, clearly was enraged.

60.   Sen. Zel Miller, D-Ga., was already scoffing last week at all the talk of a budget crisis and deriding government bureaucrats and spending sprees.