1.   We need to control spending in order to meet our financial objectives.

2.   The government linked the cuts with the need to contain public spending in order to meet the economic convergence criteria laid down for European Community economic and monetary union.

3.   But in an age when governments across Europe are scrambling to cut spending to meet the requirements of a single currency, it will not be easy.

4.   But the changes should be cost-effective, he said, because the department expects to save on overtime it otherwise would spend to meet the court order.

5.   Environmental groups said such cuts would mean the department would fall billions of dollars short of the amount that must be spent to meet existing obligations.

6.   Every old salt I served with or met spent a goodly portion of his waking hours with a forefinger crooked into the handle of a coffee mug.

7.   It is also hundreds of dollars less per ton than what Merck would spend to meet the nitrogen oxide standards itself.

8.   Meanwhile, as governments scramble to cut spending to meet the requirements for a single European currency, the days of endless rail subsidies are fast dwindling.

9.   Riley, who spent Wednesday at Valley Ranch meeting with Jones, was a former Dallas quarterbacks coach under Ernie Zampese.

10.   Still, you could start by asking how much your dentist has spent to meet infection-control guidelines, including guidelines to protect dental employees.