1.   If any blame must be given for the delay in acquiring federal assistance, it should probably fall on the governor.

2.   Strengthening of that infrastructure would stimulate self-sustaining growth in the private sector-growth which would continue after federal assistance had been withdrawn.

3.   This is only about one-quarter of the low-income families eligible for federal housing assistance.

4.   The help will come in the form of technology originally developed in the USA for the arms industry and federal scientific assistance.

5.   And he voted against federal financial assistance to medical schools that require abortion training.

6.   And the White House has dropped its hotly contested school-voucher proposal, which allow students in bad schools to receive federal assistance to pay for private schools.

7.   As a former governor, Ridge said, he understands the urgency of federal assistance for states shouldering the bulk of the cost of first response to terrorism.

8.   At the White House, President Clinton convened an inter-agency task force to coordinate federal assistance and called on Americans to pray for the dead and stricken.

9.   Besides the right to open a casino, federal recognition makes tribes eligible for federal assistance in housing, health, education and other programs.

10.   A decade earlier, Lockheed Corp. was rebuilt with federal assistance.