61.   A bright spot there has been closer Billy Taylor, who has not allowed a run and just three hits in six appearances.

62.   A bright spot was sales of hard disk drives for personal computers, which doubled from a year ago.

63.   A few bright spots have come in smaller markets where start-ups have found niches.

64.   A bright spot appeared amid the gloom of the California economy on Monday when a shiny red Pontiac rolled off an assembly line in Fremont, Calif.

65.   A bright spot for GM continued to be Saturn.

66.   A bright spot in the report, Bachu said, was that the women were persistent in trying to feed their children and send them to school.

67.   A bright spot for Arizona is that the following three games, against San Diego State, Stanford and Washington, are at home.

68.   A bright spot was Saks Holdings Inc., which operates the upscale Saks Fifth Avenue chain.

69.   A computer monitor shows the Tungurahua volcano as a bright red spot on a satellite mosaic of South America.

70.   A Monday night victory over the Chiefs last month was one of few bright spots for a team that laid down on legendary coach Don Shula.