1.   But governors say Congress should increase federal welfare spending to keep pace with inflation in coming years.

2.   Such research was nurtured in huge corporate or federal laboratories with heavy government spending to keep ahead of the Soviet Union.

3.   The danger for Gowda is that with power spread among so many parties, he will face tremendous demands for government spending to keep everybody happy.

4.   The measures followed a day-long Cabinet meeting in which the ministers discussed ways of cutting spending in order to keep the deficit in check.

5.   Boosted by farm subsidies, the income of Americans rose more strongly in March than it had in two months and spending nearly kept pace.

6.   China, meanwhile, has managed to escape a major downturn and encourages domestic spending to keep the economy growing.

7.   He said he could not rule out a freeze on all further spending in order to keep deficits down.