81.   The health and finance ministries are among those that will see spending cut.

82.   The program includes spending cuts and improved tax enforcement.

83.   They argue conditions imposed by the IMF, such as interest rate hikes and spending cuts, were too strict for wobbling economies.

84.   They turned instead to domestic mergers in response to Pentagon spending cuts that followed the end of the Cold War.

85.   Unions have threatened to paralyze Ecuador if Mahuad does not back down on his reform program and a bill now in Congress that calls for deep public spending cuts.

86.   Gulf Arab states are unlikely to tackle their persistent budget deficits with further spending cuts for fear of hurting their already stumbling economies, experts said on Friday.

87.   German government and opposition deputies opened parliamentary hostilities Monday over a controversial package of welfare spending cuts sought by the centre-right coalition of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

88.   He aims to reduce the public deficit without imposing new taxes but through spending cuts and tracking down tax evasion.

89.   Howe said it would not do anything politically or socially stupid in its May budget, strongly indicating welfare spending cuts were not on the agenda.

90.   Issen called on the government to restore employment support and re-training measures recently slashed under its austerity spending cuts.