1.  Because heavy interest payments burned up much of its cash, the company was unable to expand quickly enough, fiscal analysts say.

2.  Cynthia B. Green, a fiscal analyst with the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit business group, said the budget could easily fall out of balance.

3.  Dick Lavine, a fiscal analyst at the center, questioned the wisdom of using excess state money to give property owners a tax break.

4.  Fiscal analysts say the country will be hard pressed to pay its foreign debt this year.