1.   Another proposal that sounds like a serious assault on a bloated federal government is to abolish a Cabinet department or two, the more the merrier.

2.   All that talk by the new Republican majority in Congress about tapering the waist of a bloated government just sounds like more meat and potatoes to Chris Van Horn.

3.   But in an age when Japan is a sophisticated manufacturer of everything from autos to computer chips, the agency has become a symbol of a bloated government.

4.   Car dealerships are busy every night and young Kuwaitis can still count on a job in the bloated government bureaucracy.

5.   Cavallo then sold large blocks of the economy to private investors, who managed to boost output even as they laid off employees from bloated government enterprises.

6.   Conservatives have accused the foundation of promoting bloated government, trendy causes and a welfare state.

7.   Declaring a national economic emergency, he has begun to trim the bloated government bureaucracy.

8.   Grassley responded that without a big tax cut, federal spending would grow out of control, leaving the country with a weaker economy and a bloated government.

9.   Grossman, of the ACLU, said the patronage system resulted in a bloated government work force that cared more about politics than the services it rendered.

10.   In the space of six years, the bloated federal government will have grown by nearly one-fifth.