61.   It would have cut benefits for families that receive federal funds for disabled or retarded children, for school lunches, food stamps, child protection and day care.

62.   Just last year, they fought off attempts by Pataki to place time limits on welfare and to cut benefits.

63.   Legislators were more polite, but no more enthusiastic about the plan to cut jobless benefits.

64.   Last month, erecting another barrier to citizenship, President Clinton signed a welfare law cutting benefits to immigrants, even those legally in the country.

65.   Medical inflation is draining millions of dollars from corporate profits, and many employers are cutting benefits or requiring retirees to pay more.

66.   Members of the commission have also said they expect to recommend some painful changes, like cutting benefits in order to shore up Social Security over the long run.

67.   Most Democrats, or at least the hard-core base, favor nips and tucks, such as raising the taxable wage and cutting benefits.

68.   Most of the savings would come from cutting cash benefits to disabled children and legal immigrants.

69.   Nearly everyone seems to know that the United States is adopting measures that sharply cut benefits to legal as well as illegal immigrants.

70.   No one will even breathe the suggestion that these benefits might be cut.