61.   Although the score this time was closer last night, it might have hurt more.

62.   Although the scores were worst for the poorest children, the rate of decline was the same for all, privileged and impoverished alike.

63.   Among the mega-musicals its score is the most romantic, and Ms. Salonga is its purest interpreter.

64.   Among them are scores of artists, enough to have built a community here.

65.   And among individuals who enter teaching, those with the highest test scores are the most likely to leave the profession early.

66.   And its exquisitely crafted score may be the funniest, most incisive that Kander and Ebb ever wrote.

67.   And if test scores are an indication, public education is getting better and, with it, the future prospects of many young Texans.

68.   And in Dayton the scores would have been much worse.

69.   And test scores are one of the areas in which district students do poorly.

70.   And that score could have been even better for Faldo, who opened with three straight birdies Saturday but averaged par the rest of his third round.