71.   In a few short years, the Prodigal Son has become a popular politician, deft at working a room and skilled at domestic politics.

72.   In an interview last week, Mulally said he had chosen Bright because he was so skilled at managing the relationship between Boeing and its customers.

73.   In the process, he has ceded the Center to a New Democrat skilled at occupying it.

74.   In the future, he said, health care companies will become more skilled at applying their knowledge about medical treatments to customers outside the HMOs.

75.   It is run by tinpots and thieves, men so skilled at larceny they can pick the pockets of men who work in shorts without pockets.

76.   Like Bush, Fox has proven as skilled at speaking to average folks as to world leaders, appearing to stay in touch with his ranching roots.

77.   Like Jordan, Rick Collins is skilled at skirting questions about the impeachment trial that could be viewed as controversial.

78.   McCulloch was accustomed to controversy and skilled at making disarming remarks.

79.   Michael Cepello was a veteran crisis-counselor skilled at talking the depressed out of suicide and hostages into surrendering.

80.   Most pro-gun organizations are skilled at the gun control-crime control debate.