Besides this year's financial woes, Connecticut faces a gap, projected at $1 billion, in the budget for the 2004 fiscal year, which begins on July 1.

But adopting all those taxes would go only partway toward closing the gap now projected.

But other restrictions in the deal would mean that the new taxes and lottery game would not be available to help Mr. Dinkins close an estimated $2.6 billion gap projected for the fiscal year that begins this July.

The $11 trillion estimate is the gap projected to infinity.

But the projected gap is smaller than the cost of making President Bush's tax cuts permanent, and it is about one-sixth the long-term gap projected for Medicare.

In 1997, for the first time, consumers spent more on home videos than books, a narrow gap projected to increase through 2001, according to figures from the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

They, like some state lawmakers, point out they have time to address the gap projected for the 2004 city budget and to hash out the remaining issues later.

Neither the Mayor nor his aides have disclosed the full extent of the gap projected for the fiscal year that begins on July 1.

By committing the proceeds of property sales to its capital budget, which finances the construction or improvement of physical assets, the authority would not be narrowing the multibillion-dollar gaps projected for its operating budget in the next few years.

The gaps projected for the next two years, however, are projected to be bigger than Mr. Pataki had asserted when the Legislature overrode his budget.