71.   For now, the board has settled on relying largely on what governments actually spent in building or acquisition costs.

72.   For years, the government simply spent it.

73.   Forget that this government spends less on an individual immigrant than it spends on an individual native-born American.

74.   Government spending on, say, early childhood education is also an act of saving and investment.

75.   Future presidents and future Congresses might decide that the government would rather spend money on programs like these than let the tax cuts become effective.

76.   Governments spent money on massive public works projects while ignoring education and health care.

77.   Government economists said consumers, corporations and the government spent less in the January-March period than originally reported.

78.   Government has spent more than half a trillion dollars over the past few years trying to cure the economic blahs.

79.   He says the only way to ensure that the federal government does not spend any budget surplus is to refund most of the money to taxpayers.

80.   He said the economy may have sputtered recently due to bad weather, slow retail sales and a falloff in government spending due to the budget deadlock.