61.   But a growing number has reason to like the disparity because it has created jobs for them.

62.   But four times that number have been taken in by mosques, churches and families across the country.

63.   But now that same practice has earned the government a reputation for smugness and insensitivity to public opinion at a time when the number of blunders has been increasing.

64.   But no telling how low the number would have been if not for the violent downpour of free tickets.

65.   But the declines were generally smaller than in the past, and a number of papers had gains.

66.   But the same numbers have different meanings for different artists.

67.   But the unknown number that survived have the potential to severely weaken the bloodline of endangered wild salmon in three Maine rivers.

68.   Buzz Alexander, the director of the Prison Creative Arts Project in Ann Arbor, Mich., said a number of states have inmate art exhibit programs.

69.   Califano acknowledged that crime rates have dropped dramatically in the last five years and said the rising number of prisoners has a lot to do with it.

70.   But, today, other numbers can have an ominous feel.