Heading the list is the infamous repeal of the commuter tax in 1999, a maneuver rooted in narrow party politics, not grand fiscal strategy.

In addition, your fiscal strategy should plan for continuous upgrading of new technology.

As a fiscal strategy, dollar depreciation has much to recommend it.

The measure would have slowed efforts to turn city agencies over to private companies, a centerpiece of Mr. Giuliani's fiscal strategy.

If I were chief economic adviser to the Treasury, my fiscal strategy would be: 3, 7, 14, 26, 28, 31 and bonus ball number 10.

But Council insiders recognized that the threat, while not empty, represented more of a public-relations gesture than a genuine fiscal strategy.

The founders did not just want to start an Institute; they wanted to change British fiscal strategy.

In the case of the euro, nation states have, predictably, followed fiscal strategies that suit them, rather than the rules and pacts that support the currency.

"We have rising unemployment and more borrowing than planned a year ago and as a result his economic and fiscal strategy is in tatters," he said.

Papandreou replaced Karamanlis's tight fiscal strategy with increased social services and subsidies.