61.   Districts falling below standards would qualify for state aid.

62.   Donations are no substitute for state aid, which provides the basics, Flawn said.

63.   European executives complain that it is tough to keep track of state aid from agencies such as the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

64.   EU rules allow the commission to take a government to the European Court of Justice for breaking agreements on state aid payments.

65.   European officials denied that their measures represented state aid.

66.   Failing further state aid, they said, the bank faced another loss -- though their forecasts differed widely.

67.   For example, herejected a Cape Cod land bank bill designed to fund preservation with state aid and an assessment on local property tax bills.

68.   First, he pushed the Legislature in Albany, with limited success, to cut welfare and Medicaid costs and provide a modest amount of state aid.

69.   Forget that state aid formulas have cheated city schoolchildren for decades, while favoring the wealthy suburbs.

70.   For most of the lawmakers, the most important slice of the budget is state aid to local schools.