71.   Scattered snows fell from Ohio to Minnesota on Tuesday and rain drenched the Eastern seaboard, most heavily from New York to the Carolinas.

72.   Some proposals have suggested the Washington-Baltimore link might eventually become the center of an Eastern seaboard maglev running from Boston to Charlotte, N.C.

73.   Tensions were heightened by reports that China is conducting military exercises off its eastern seaboard, north of Taiwan.

74.   The eastern seaboard is no longer a paradise of palms, white beaches and clear tropical waters.

75.   The eastern seaboard was mostly fair, although Eastern Maine and coastal Massachusetts had mostly cloudy skies.

76.   The exceptions are the millions of Thais who left the countryside during the boom for jobs in the city and new industrial parks along the eastern seaboard.

77.   The moisture feeding ahead of this system brought variably cloudy skies to the eastern seaboard, and showers and thunderstorms speckled the northern and southern Florida peninsula.

78.   There have been occasional oil spills, along with other pollution, particularly mercury contamination from industrial estates on the eastern seaboard.

79.   They are victims of the worsening gap between the impoverished western part of China and the booming cities and eastern seaboard.

80.   Forecasters warned floods could hit the eastern seaboard as winds whip the coast.