A certain kind of person grows up knowing intuitively how their driveway hooks up to every road in America, and how all those roads lead to the sea. Alan Gillespie and Liza Farrow grew up in Temple as those kind of people. They were weekend sailors and high school sweethearts, Class of

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives wait warily as President Bush makes final decisions about his election-year budget, three years into an administration on whose watch spending has mushroomed by 23.7 percent, the fastest pace in a decade. While Bush has emphasized repeatedly the need to rein in spending, overall federal expenditures have grown to an estimated $2.31 trillion for the budget year that started Oct. 1. That is up from $1.86 trillion in President Clinton’s final year, a rate of growth not seen for any three-year period since 1989 to 1991.

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