1.   Chirac jettisoned his pledge to make employment his priority soon after his election, declaring in October that deficit cuts were more important.

2.   Effectively, in a deficit situation tax cuts are exactly the same as government spending, just more indiscriminate.

3.   Indian stocks rose after the government announced economic policies more geared toward deficit cuts and foreign investment than expected.

4.   Indian stocks rose after the government yesterday announced economic policies more geared toward deficit cuts and foreign investment than expected.

5.   Investors expect a divided government will result in further deficit cuts and limited government regulation.

6.   Raising entitlement spending at a time of huge deficit cuts is wrong.

7.   Tax cuts drive spending cuts drive deficit cuts.

8.   That strikes many economists as a fairly gradual pace of budget deficit cuts.

9.   The unemployed expected jobs, investors expected public deficit cuts and labor market liberalization, and all so far have been disappointed.

10.   Shepherding the nation through economic austerity measures, Ciampi enforced a policy of tight state spending and deficit cuts after years of free-wheeling spending.