71.   The expectations for a bumper crop are relieving angst about what was seen as uncomfortably low inventories, analysts said.

72.   The fighting comes at a time of low global inventories and rising world demand for crude.

73.   The low inventory is also affecting sales in the Santa Clarita Valley, said Nancy Starczyk, president of that Realtors group.

74.   The low inventories, he said, have also put upward pressure on home prices.

75.   The low inventories come during the peak period of gasoline demand, as vacationing motorists take to the road.

76.   The same low inventory plagues the have-not economy.

77.   The purchase came after U.S. prices soared because of low inventories.

78.   The rally in commodity prices this year may have run its course, as rising production helps ease the strain of low inventories.

79.   The reason that refiners find themselves with low inventories resembles the pattern of last spring, when gasoline prices surged.

80.   The strike has slowed production at the mine at a time of low copper inventories, although assessments of the disruption vary.