71.   By switching to copper-based chips, each circuit can be made thinner without losing the ability to carry electrons.

72.   By nabbing possible terrorists prematurely, the government loses the ability to track them as they implicate the rest of their cells.

73.   Children with A-T typically lose the ability to walk by the age of eight.

74.   Colleges that do not offer such services may lose their ability to attract students.

75.   Critics here say the proposal would ensure that lawyers, like doctors in health maintenance organizations, will increasingly lose their ability to make independent professional judgments.

76.   Daniel Zirbel lost the ability to walk, speak clearly, even to swallow liquids, but he never lost his sense of humor.

77.   Do we all lose the ability to laugh in the coming millennium?

78.   During a recent month of bad days, she lost her ability to speak.

79.   Eddie said he talks to his sons occasionally by telephone but feels he has lost the ability to influence their lives.

80.   Eventually, of course, we suspect even that will lose its ability to comfort.