This reflects a sharp drop in house prices and sales, cutting tax revenues and pushing the budget deficit close to the stability-pact ceiling this year, and probably over it in 2009.

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While Democrats are pushing for tax cuts, fighting crime and cutting the welfare roles, Republican governors facing re-election are seeking to broaden health care coverage, hire more teachers and work to protect the environment.

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Steps so far have included cutting individual grants lawmakers direct to nonprofits and pushing through a law that allows for legislators to lose their pensions for committing felonies related to their jobs.

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But Moynihan has spent much of the last year pushing to get BofA working again by cutting costs with his Project New BAC plan, and selling non-core assets like its non-U.S. wealth management unit, for instance.

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The French forward let fly from fully 35 yards after cutting in from the left flank and Wiese made a terrible blunder, simply pushing the ball up in the air and into his own net to give the home fans an unexpected treat.

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Just before the start of the Labor Day weekend it announced it was cutting off AdMob support for mobile web sites seeking to monetize their mobile web content and pushing them onto its AdSense ad platform.

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