71.   The truth, however, is that benefit programs are even harder to cut than ordinary domestic spending.

72.   The U.S. Department of Labor has not yet published guidance on the new extended benefits program.

73.   Their latest budget still reaches balance while the tax cut and the savings in benefit programs have been virtually halved, albeit in six years instead of seven.

74.   They prefer to think of each benefit program as an isolated problem.

75.   They foresaw many losing fights over annual appropriations that will be increasingly squeezed by ballooning payments for interest on the national debt and benefit programs such as Medicare.

76.   Thomas and the dissenters noted that Varity had the legal right, at any time, to change or even end the benefit program.

77.   Trimming the inflation numbers would mean lower payouts to Social Security beneficiaries, other recipients of federal benefit programs and retired government workers.

78.   Unlike other basic benefits programs that comprise the so-called safety net in this country, WIC is subject to an annual appropriation of money from here.

79.   Value Health provides specialty managed care benefit programs to large corporations, insurance companies, managed-care organizations and federal, state and local governments.

80.   Welfare took some hits, as did a score of other benefit programs.