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Meanwhile, back in Washington, reports the Times , the Senate Budget Committee approved the Republican tax and spending plan on a straight party-line vote, after defeating several Democratic attempts to reinstate the Clinton initiatives.
Some islands were taken by the French, but Admiral Rodney saved Jamaica by defeating the French fleet at the Battle of Les Saintes in 1782.
We may lose the best hope we have of defeating the terrible diseases that now plague us.
"At a time when Americans are growing increasingly cynical about public service and increasingly disillusioned about their political leaders," McCain charged Saturday, "I was disappointed to see my fellow Republicans' reaction to recent comments and writings by Pat Buchanan concerning our nation's role in defeating Nazi Germany.
He crippled Gore's chances of defeating Bush--who as a Republican is destined to lead America into its next recession or depression, as the GOP always does--and he squandered two years of economic expansion during which really great programs might have been enacted while we had the cash lying around.