71.   Earlier, Lamassoure said that while the stimulus package will offer some tax breaks, the net effect on tax revenue will be neither positive nor negative.

72.   Educators will watch from the sidelines as Congress debates unemployment insurance or the timing of a stimulus package.

73.   Earlier today, Economic Planning Agency chief Masahiko Komura said review of real-estate and securities taxes will serve as pillars of the economic stimulus package.

74.   Economists generally contend that the ideal time for an economic stimulus package was last fall, right after the attacks.

75.   Even so, the dollar failed to rally against the yen amid growing expectations the Japanese government will announce an additional economic stimulus package.

76.   Even the Japanese began to act, announcing both a bank restructuring plan and an economic stimulus package.

77.   Finance Minister Wataru Kubo said yesterday the government is leaning against drawing up a stimulus package.

78.   Expectations will heighten that the central banks will intervene at about the same time the stimulus packages is released, he said.

79.   For that reason alone, some Democrats have not been unhappy that negotiations on the stimulus package have bogged down.

80.   Frustrated and exhausted lawmakers declared the economic stimulus package nearly dead Tuesday, with time running out before the Christmas recess to revive it.