Her call for a "debate of ideas" was viewed as a call to revive the party's traditional policy of generous spending.

The credit made possible more generous spending for site amenities than is normally found in low-income housing.

But with the return of fiscal stability also came generous spending whenever the economy permitted.

Of course, corporate America is not exactly throwing in its lot with those who champion generous spending on housing, schools or other causes dear to liberals.

He announced social programs for Chiapas worth $3.5 billion, the most generous federal spending per resident on any state in the nation.

In the 1980's, as a liberal under a Democratic mayor, he was like a general in charge of a personal army, commanding generous public spending for city parks.

And its weak investment performance and generous spending had shrunk its capital to $2.3 billion in 1979 from $3.3 billion five years earlier.

The Parliament has been fighting with the executive branch over a budget proposal, saying that its generous spending could threaten inflation.

Critics said that his plans for generous spending to create jobs and increase salaries were politically motivated and fiscally unsound.

There was also a chorus of criticism, once again, from fiscal monitors who warned that generous spending in the 2002 budget could create problems for the next mayor.