51.   The administration wants to reduce the payments from the fund by covering fewer sites.

52.   That money would come mostly from reducing future payments to hospitals treating large numbers of poor people, so-called disproportionate share money.

53.   The agreement, reached after months of tense negotiations, includes wage and benefit concessions from the unions and reduced payments to bus companies.

54.   The changes, which are opposed by labor unions, would reduce severance payments and aim to increase productivity by ending restrictive working practices.

55.   The company will amortize the benefit over the next few years to reduce tax payments.

56.   The city has been allowed to reduce payments into union pension funds and take money out of other union funds to close the budget gaps and avoid layoffs.

57.   The government wants to curb investment so it can reduce interest payments on those bonds.

58.   The House proposal for reducing growth in the health insurance program for the elderly proposes reducing the payments by an unspecified amount.

59.   The House Republicans would also reduce payments to doctors and hospitals, especially teaching hospitals and those that serve large numbers of low-income patients.

60.   The lower debt would reduce interest rate payments on the debt, helping France cut its debt.