71.   Dozens of rising stars, Democrats and Republicans alike, decided not to run for Congress this year in what political strategists describe as a growing trend.

72.   Even as I write this, I am thinking about Darin Erstad, a rising star with the Anaheim Angels.

73.   Eric Lacroix is a rising star with the Colorado Avalanche.

74.   Even then, as a rising black star in the Reagan administration, he was viewed with suspicion.

75.   Fassel is considered a rising star by many in the National Football League, and he has earned a reputation as a skilled worker with offenses and quarterbacks.

76.   First as head of the internal auditing team, then as vice president and controller, he established himself as a rising star.

77.   For the leftists, Gianfranco Fini, the rising star in the center-right coalition, embodies this threat.

78.   Fortunately for the rising GE star, he was wrong.

79.   Graham, a rising star in the state Republican Party, sometimes looks as if he slept in his clothes.

80.   Giguere, who is emerging as a rising star, was able to preserve a lead he was given six minutes into the game.