1.  As a group, they are probably poor people who would have bailed out if they had the money.

2.  Current recipients of Medicaid, the government health program for poor people, would be allowed to join the new Medicare program or use subsidies to purchase private insurance.

3.  Describing his plans, he alternates between a desire to minister to poor young people and the more glamorous prospect of tending the souls of entertainers and rich athletes.

4.  Democrats countered that personal accounts would drain money from a system that poor people and women rely on most.

5.  Despite all the talk about homelessness, welfare reform and poor people, the homeless rarely get a chance to share their own views, Boden said.

6.  Despite Sayles' tendency toward heavy-handedness, the movie succeeds in vividly dramatizing the helplessness of poor people caught in the grinder of politics and war.

7.  Despite the progress the state has made, he contended, too may poor people and too many students still are being left behind.

8.  Darman argued derisively that it would be cheaper to buy poor people new condominiums.

9.  David B. Bryson, a lawyer and advocate of the housing rights of poor people, died on Dec. 25 at a hospital in Berkeley, Calif.

10.  Disagreeing with Bilirakis' plea to offer coverage to poor people first this year, Kennedy urged that such coverage should be available to everyone.