71.   The Coast Guard, which patrols many ports, would fall under the new department.

72.   The college responded by creating a new department to keep closer tabs on its researchers, their grant money and the human subjects participating in trials.

73.   The consolidation of agencies in a new department could touch off or intensify bureaucratic infighting, like the fierce rivalry among armed services in the Defense Department.

74.   The FBI, analysts said, has too many other functions unrelated to counterterrorism, and for that reason would not belong in the new department.

75.   The early drafts of the Bush plan call for shifting federal workers from several agencies to the new department rather than reducing the number of government employees.

76.   The first hurdle for the reorganization plan could come on Capitol Hill, where any new federal department must be approved by Congress.

77.   The House majority leader, Dick Armey, said many of his colleagues worried about the exclusion of the CIA and FBI from the new department.

78.   The new department was plucked from offices of the old Health, Education and Welfare Department.

79.   The new department, Hoar said, would be in the national interest.

80.   The new department chairman bought a tree of gourmet lollipops and demanded everyone take one.