61.   Bush talked more about local control of schools, Gore about how he would use federal funds to help reduce class size.

62.   Bush promoted his welfare reform plans while touring Mission Waco, a faith-based ministry that uses state funds for job training.

63.   But I always add that Ginnie Mae funds should be used only as a long-term investment and that the owners should expect a couple of tough years every decade.

64.   But if Kerry does use personal funds, Weld is ready.

65.   But if the United States lost, public funds would be used to pay Loewen.

66.   But if Congress redirected those dollars, the state would have to decide whether to cut the services or use state funds to pay for them, experts said.

67.   But it has insisted that it would only put additional taxpayer dollars at risk after IMF money and other funds had been used.

68.   But it cannot use federal funds to do that lobbying.

69.   But the grant was killed when U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Oxnard, led local opposition to using public funds.

70.   But the practice is fiercely opposed by the Guild, which maintains that merit funds will be used to reward favored or anti-union workers.