61.   White House officials said the next step is for Republicans to present the White House with a new balanced-budget proposal using the new CBO economic estimates.

62.   White House officials declined to comment on the new estimate, which began circulating among government officials on Wednesday.

63.   Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office issued new estimates on the savings from that portion of the plan.

64.   Placer said the new estimate was expected in about four weeks.

65.   A day after a strong rally on predictions that the crop would be smaller than expected, corn rose modestly on a similar new estimate by a private forecaster.

66.   A new estimate of a bigger-than-expected corn crop in Argentina contributed to the selling mood.

67.   Although nearly as many women as men have college degrees, men still far outnumber women in higher-income jobs, new Census Bureau estimates show.

68.   But Eichel, who followed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in backing off the target, declined to give a new estimate ahead of a reassessment this fall.

69.   Dinkic did not describe how he compiled the new estimate.

70.   Dr. Patricia Fleming of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented the new estimates Monday at the Ninth Annual Retrovirus Conference in Seattle.