But on the horizon, sort of in the middle term and the long term, we do have a very real problem with debt and deficits.

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Well clearly it altered the world economy in the short term, and the trading status of several middle eastern countries in the medium and long term.

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Gammage ran against Paul in 1976, in a special election to fill the House seat of Bob Casey, a Democrat who resigned in the middle of his term to become a Maritime commissioner.

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