"The deficit will not just disappear on its own."

A deficit that first surfaced in 1990 will not disappear this year, as predicted.

Even though the deficit has disappeared, the debate has become more contentious than ever.

But last time, in the blink of an eye, the deficits disappeared.

Woods can make a seven-stroke deficit disappear quickly, and Price is taking nothing for granted.

But there may be reason to believe that the president's team cares little whether the deficit disappears.

Well, for one thing, the Administration has been saying for years that the deficit will soon disappear.

And unlike his own previous budgets, this one doesn't pretend the deficit will disappear.

At that time, the administration said the total deficit would shrink to $71 billion next year and disappear in 2004.

Academic programs also have broadened, and a $5 million deficit, due largely to the recession of the early 1990's, has all but disappeared.