31.   Faced with decades of fiscal crises, city agencies like the Parks Department have had to turn to corporations or communities to help provide services.

32.   Fiscal crisis.

33.   For years residents voted against a sales tax increase, setting off a fiscal crisis that forced the sheriff to close nearly half the county jail.

34.   Giuliani has said the school system simply must scale back its spending during a time of fiscal crisis.

35.   He also blames his predecessor, Sharon Pratt Kelly, for creating the current fiscal crisis.

36.   He commented occasionally on city fiscal affairs, when asked, and he defended his handling of the fiscal crisis when his stewardship was criticized.

37.   He said he believes the same cost-cutting tactics that brought the Commonwealth out of fiscal crisis can be used at the federal level.

38.   He proved that yet again on Sunday, sacking his government at the height of a fiscal crisis, adding political chaos and limbo to the economic maelstrom.

39.   He warned of a fiscal crisis ahead if the United States does not act now.

40.   How bad is the state fiscal crisis?