71.   That will reduce services to the middle class and poor alike as the city struggles to emerge from its worst fiscal crisis in a generation.

72.   The city government, riding out a fiscal crisis, had nothing to contribute.

73.   The city last reached that point only when it was recovering from the fiscal crisis.

74.   The city was wracked by a fiscal crisis, so it seemed a good deal for the Milsteins.

75.   The fiscal crisis has brought out our most critical side.

76.   The fiscal crisis has cast a defeated feeling in Buffalo.

77.   The Hartford board was in its fourth year of a fiscal crisis that was forcing it to cut programs.

78.   The legislative leaders and Pataki seem to be girding for an extended game of brinkmanship over various fiscal crises.

79.   The IMF and Western officials have couched the fiscal crisis as a acid test for Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko and his young team of aides.

80.   The meanness is still here, as social programs to the most needy are the first item on the chopping block in the current fiscal crisis in the states.