text: Italian Finance Minister Tackles Budget (AP) AP - While most of Italy decamped to the beaches and the mountains for their summer break, one man remained holed up crunching numbers in his office in Rome. The task facing Domenico Siniscalco, Italy's new finance minister, is daunting. He will try to win support for an immense round of budget cuts  #151; totaling at least  #36;29 billion for 2005  #151; to contain Italy's ballooning deficit and cut back its mountainous debt.
inputs: Italian Finance Minister Tackles Budget (AP) AP - While most of Italy decamped to the beaches and the mountains for their summer break, one man remained holed up crunching numbers in his office in Rome. The task facing Domenico Siniscalco, Italy's new finance minister, is daunting. He will try to win support for an immense round of budget cuts  #151; totaling at least  #36;29 billion for 2005  #151; to contain Italy's ballooning deficit and cut back its mountainous debt.