Treasury officials acknowledged that some people with costly, comprehensive benefits had modest incomes.

Small- and medium-size businesses tend to be hostile to entitlements because they usually do not have union workers with costly benefits.

Nor do we create a variety of new costly benefits and entitlement programs.

Politically, those retirees will be a fearsome bunch, likely to demand and receive costly new benefits, like the recently enacted Medicare prescription drug plan.

Mr. Perot's willingness to spend his own money seems to have broad appeal in a town choking on costly benefits and fund-raising galas.

The bill would add potentially costly benefits to the policy that every American would buy.

Even many owners who now offer costly benefits tend to oppose any new Government requirement.

And you are about the propose what could be a very costly additional benefit in the prescription benefit.

Freshly hired from universities, the company's engineers earn $4,600 to $7,600 a year, with few costly benefits.

That talk hasn't turned to action, though, and under this administration Congress has even added costly benefits to Medicare.