51.   Until just over a year ago, Clinton disdained Republican calls to eliminate the deficit.

52.   Were they to project a booming economy, growth in tax revenues would go a long way toward eliminating deficits.

53.   Whether the plan will be enacted as written remains unclear, and murkier still is the question of whether it would actually eliminate the deficit in five years.

54.   With Congress racing to overhaul Medicare, cut taxes and eliminate the deficit, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison asked Thursday that lawmakers not forget the American homemaker.

55.   But Democrats said it eliminated federal deficits with gentler reductions in important social programs than Republicans want.

56.   But the bloated public sector is becoming a major obstacle for a plan to privatize the economy and eliminate budget deficits by the end of the century.

57.   Churches across Canada are seeing growing lineups at food banks, soup kitchens and shelters as federal, provincial and municipal governments cut social programs to eliminate deficits.

58.   President Clinton, meanwhile, pledged to work with Republicans toward eliminating the deficit within a specified period, but not in seven years as the Republicans prefer.

59.   The government has prepared a five-year plan that introduces taxes and fees for services to eliminate the deficit by the end of the century.

60.   The government has proposed introducing taxes and charging for now free public services to try to eliminate budget deficits by the end of the century.