1.   Jordan promised to trim the city budget without cutting essential services.

2.   Another is the city budget, which is nowhere near structural balance.

3.   Apart from the vendor bill, he vetoed a measure that would have directed the Water Board to set annual rates at the time the city budget is adopted.

4.   At the heart of their dispute is what budgetary powers are left to the Council after a city budget is adopted in July.

5.   Besides, city clinics would almost certainly have been subjected to budget cuts had they remained under the strapped city budget.

6.   But could she do what pleases her without help from the city budget?

7.   But he will soon be governor, and a multibillion-dollar filtration system would inevitably hurt not only the city budget, but also the state budget.

8.   But in the complex political calculus of city budgets, Giuliani undoubtedly knew he would encounter such criticism no matter what he did.

9.   But he put the city budget in the black, lengthened the subway system, widened public health services and improved services for the disabled.

10.   But the mayor-elect sounded almost nonchalant in discussing the city budget that will make for long nights in his future.