71.   Several researchers speculate that this disturbing statistical trend may in part be due to a corresponding increase in pressures on middle and working-class families, specifically economic pressures.

72.   She and others question whether such decisions would be made in the best interest of patients, or because of economic pressures.

73.   She explains that airliners are built safe but that deregulation has put such economic pressure on the airlines that corners have been cut.

74.   She said Netanyahu should move quickly to respond to early steps by Arafat with an easing of the economic pressure that Israel has put on the Palestinian Authority.

75.   Short of military action, China could apply economic pressure on Taiwan.

76.   Some senior Bush administration officials hope that economic pressures will lead North Korea to seek a far-reaching accommodation with the West.

77.   Some say they expect economic pressures to push the right wing into the modernist camp.

78.   Such problems have encouraged some U.S. officials and lawmakers to conclude that Cuba is vulnerable to increased economic pressure.

79.   Still, the rising prices are creating economic pressures on some consumers who said they have started rethinking summer vacation plans.

80.   That all this goes on in the face of a two-year-old policy of containment and supposed economic pressure is absurd.