1.   Geoffrey Coombs wrote the letter after discovering that his school may have to lose a teacher if planned cuts to the education budget go ahead.

2.   An all-party group of MPs has warned the Government that its planned cuts in the armed services will lead to resources being chronically overstretched.

3.   And even if prices were to hold steady for now, other important factors could drive them higher as the planned cuts in output take effect.

4.   Analysts said another part of the problem is that the early disclosure of the planned cuts apparently has depressed PC sales even further.

5.   A strike by French transport workers is spreading, as other public-sector workers take up the protest against planned cuts in pension and welfare spending.

6.   But Susan Wiviott, an associate commissioner for the homeless services department, said that workfare did not figure in the planned cuts.

7.   Employees were told the size of the planned cuts Monday in a memo from Jim Hoover, the Northrop vice president for aerostructures.

8.   It remains to be seen, however, whether the planned cuts take full effect and how much they affect prices.

9.   Its passage, though, will set the stage for planned spending cuts.

10.   Part of the problem, though, is that the early disclosure of the planned cuts apparently has depressed PC sales even further.