71.   Penn served as a senior economist at USDA during the Carter administration and is co-author of a commonly used university text book on food and agriculture policy.

72.   A drop in demand for gold for jewelry offset the rise in gold for investment, said Jill Leyland, a senior economist with the council.

73.   A senior economist with a stockbroking house said yesterday that the BPA idea was a good one.

74.   A senior economist at Gadjah Mada University, Sudijono Reksoprajitno, proposed an alternative, which he called the steady growth exchange rate system.

75.   A World Bank senior economist, meanwhile, said a recent study shows that poor countries generally suffer more from AIDS than affluent ones.

76.   Abdullah is likely to ask Ali Abu Ragheb, a senior economist and former trade and industry minister, to form a new Cabinet, government officials said.

77.   Among the potential candidates are Ammar Siamwalla, a respected senior economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute.

78.   Atiur Rahman, a senior economist with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, said he expected a pragmatic budget.

79.   Because the crisis was fundamentally a banking sector problem, reforms are needed there, said Donald P. Hanna, senior economist at Goldman Sachs.

80.   Big public works, usually linked to China, are in the spirit of Hong Kong, says Mark Mcfarland, a senior economist at Peregrine Investments Holdings Ltd.