71.   The Socialists balked at privatization and ran up huge fiscal deficits to keep inefficient state companies going.

72.   There are concerns that Poland could face a huge deficit next year.

73.   Zajedno has discovered huge deficits in cities it already has taken over, and leaders have threatened to stop forwarding tax collections to central authorities.

74.   Budapest built the best standard of living of any country in the region, but at the expense of huge public deficits.

75.   But it is the tough measures Juppe and French President Jacques Chirac have introduced to reduce huge public deficits which prompted the strikes.

76.   Clarke blamed the huge deficit overshoot on an unexpected shortfall in tax receipts.

77.   The US Congress and administration are currently engaged in difficult negotiations on reducing the huge public deficit.

78.   Japan has a huge deficit in textile trade with China which frequently emerges as a major source of trade disputes between the two countries.

79.   Meanwhile, a glimmer of hope emerged for the Conservatives as two polls suggested the party was beginning to claw back its apparent huge deficit in support.

80.   The conservative government of Prime Minister Jose-Maria Aznar has frozen the salaries for next year in an effort to cut back the huge public spending deficit.