The problem for President Bush's budget planners this year was how to meet his election-year political needs without seeming to ignore the enormous Federal deficit.

Just late last year, budget planners found that estimates for a shuttle replacement using the best of the new technologies might reach $30 billion.

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So far in 1999, Mexico has earned $1.3 billion more from petroleum exports than budget planners anticipated.

For politicians and budget planners, it is an environment that leaves little room for error.

If budget planners do not allow recruiting budgets to rise, there will be no chance that the required number can be recruited.

Subsequently, she worked as a budget planner for the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Yet for years budget planners here have had to cope with deficits that, in percentage terms, are larger than even those of the United States.

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