For decades, the Federal Government has attached strings to money given to the states for all sorts of activities.

You can do likewise - and not attach strings to it.

The 5-to-4 decision set a significant limit on the government's ability to attach strings to public money for expressive activities.

But last week when the House approved $200 million of the aid, it attached enough strings to strangle those good intentions.

Whether the Government should attach strings to digital licenses has been a politically charged issue since last year's election.

Could future Congresses change the rules if they wanted to attach strings to the money?

Then attach strings between the walls at these points.

Continue attaching strings to indicate the positions of all the runners, working your way along the two short walls.

Next, attach strings the same way between the two long walls to indicate the positions of the cross tees.

The money they spend - $141 billion last year - has few strings attached.