11.   Beame blamed his predecessors for the fiscal crisis and contended that his efforts had staved off default.

12.   Bethlehem is not in an immediate fiscal crisis.

13.   A corruption probe has ensnared several top officials, while a fiscal crisis blamed on years of mismanagement has left the city teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

14.   A fiscal crisis tore away relentlessly at city services.

15.   After years of fiscal crises, the budget is balanced.

16.   Bush, who has never run as an incumbent, has gone from leading a state of plenty to one in a fiscal crisis.

17.   But a fiscal crisis is no time to jeopardize the safety and well-being of the next generation of New Yorkers.

18.   But diplomats also said the size and manner in which this cutback was made indicated that the United Nations fiscal crisis played a role in the decision.

19.   But if Massachusetts faces another fiscal crisis next year, will we be able to resist taking a puff?

20.   But soon, the city was being strangled by another fiscal crisis, and new building was impossible.