1.   As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.

2.   Drastic changes, up or down, hamper longer-term development and can mean re-drafting the national budget at short notice.

3.   National banks in the rouble zone, responsible only to their governments, were currently issuing money to plug gaps in their national budgets.

4.   Health services appropriate a significant proportion of national budgets, and the economic and social costs incurred by the family of an ill child are also large.

5.   In terms of the emphasis given to agriculture in the EC, the structure of the budget of the EC is very different from national budgets.

6.   Almost one-fourth of the national budget goes to defense.

7.   Although government plans to cut spending to balance the national budget probably will put a dent in that measure in coming months.

8.   Americans are not supposed to be bored about the dramatic conflict in Washington over continuing resolutions on the national budget.

9.   And the chief opposition party held up the national budget for weeks in protest.

10.   As of Friday, Senator Edward M. Kennedy was trying to insert language in the national budget in a last-minute attempt to preserve the state mandate.