61.   The tax measure was narrowly defeated.

62.   The tax cut measures approved by the House are even closer than the Senate measure to what the president proposed.

63.   The tax measure is likely to pass next year only after much debate.

64.   The stand-alone tax hike measure will fail and Democrats contend it is an attempt to embarrass them and Clinton.

65.   The tax measure is one of a pair of bills passed by Congress to balance the budget for the first time in a generation.

66.   Volkswagen blamed one-time tax charges as a result of German tax reform measures for much of the loss.

67.   Waterman said Moynihan may add the exemption to other pending tax measures in the Senate before the current session ends.

68.   Wilson, who is campaigning for president as an anti-tax candidate, has opposed tax measures in the past that do not include a provision for voter approval.

69.   X Republicans and X Democrats in the evenly divided Senate voted for the tax cut measure, the top legislative priority of the new Bush administration.

70.   Opposition leaders, who argue the changes would hurt local businesses and the poor, voted to put off voting on the tax measures.