1.   Budget cuts forced schools to curtail after-school programs.

2.   Budget cuts have drastically curtailed training programs.

3.   Even in cities which generally fared well in the face of federal budget cuts, the impacts in these areas were significant.

4.   Michele Hanson examines the problems imposed by budget cuts and staff shortages, and looks at the need for long-term strategies.

5.   Public library services are threatened by budget cuts.

6.   Similarly, the army, when faced with a budget cut, never points the finger at desk-bound lieutenant colonels.

7.   Some of the money will be used to soften the blow of budget cuts to education.

8.   Supervisors said then they might have to consider budget cuts to make up for the energy costs.

9.   The bureaucrat will almost always say that a budget cut is sure to result in the loss of jobs.