1.   And nothing bad ever seems to happen because our creditors have allowed the American public to go on the greatest spending binge the world has ever seen.

2.   But it was precisely in the months between annual checkups that Mexico went on the wild spending binge that caused its financial heart attack.

3.   But thanks to his much-publicized vetoes, who is going to remember that Pataki took the lead in the spending binge?

4.   Despite the end of the Cold War, the satellite office has been on a spending binge.

5.   For example, BSkyB, the satellite television broadcaster in which the News Corp. is the largest shareholder, has also suffered a hangover from its spending binge.

6.   Freed from external constraints, governments have gone on spending binges.

7.   In interviews, Little Rock shopkeepers describe the Hubbells as good customers, but hardly given to spending binges.

8.   Nothing bad ever seems to happen because our creditors have allowed the American public to go on the greatest spending binge the world has ever seen.

9.   Republicans have often cited this in support of their plan, saying that to leave a surplus hanging around in Washington is to invite spending binges.

10.   She also consoled herself by indulging her old shopaholic habits, desperately keeping her spending binges a secret from her husband.