1.   A federal program was set up to retrain workers who have lost their jobs.

2.   As a federal spending program, Medicare now ranks fourth behind Social Security, defense and debt service.

3.   But Clinton showed that hundreds of federal programs will be on a strict diet during the struggle to eliminate the federal deficit.

4.   Congress is poised to block-grant to the states huge chunks of federal programs.

5.   Federal programs to guarantee loans to small businesses have been expanded and targeted at women.

6.   In the Phoenix case, and from the perspective of local officials, the federal program contains conflicting objectives.

7.   It is one of the few federal programs from which large budget savings are potentially available.

8.   Medicaid is a large federal health care program for the poor.

9.   Officials were required to obtain such a statement under a federal program for crime victims.

10.   The overall cutback in the funding of federal urban programs would require cities to look to state governments for aid.