1.   At a Cabinet meeting today, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called for an expansion in public spending to stimulate domestic demand.

2.   For the first time he spoke of using government spending to stimulate the economy.

3.   Japanese bonds extended a slide from yesterday as a stock decline prompted investor anticipation of possible government spending to stimulate the economy.

4.   Koizumi has so far refused to abandon his program, though he has approved some supplemental spending to stimulate the economy.

5.   The administration is opposed to the amendment, arguing that it could exacerbate economic downturns by making it harder to use government spending to stimulate a recovery.

6.   The government has already adopted one supplemental budget of extra spending to stimulate the economy, and is preparing a second.

7.   The step aims to accelerate public spending to stimulate demand and employment.

8.   With the stock market plunging on the first day of trading since the attacks, he discussed the possibility of using government spending to stimulate the economy.

9.   The opposition is calling for a dose of public spending to stimulate the economy and steps to cut out bureaucratic meddling in the economy, but prospects are uncertain.

10.   Unemployment remains high, however, and government spending to stimulate the economy has driven the public debt to record levels.