81.   Conservative Party conferences are usually occasions for some tough-sounding oratory from the delegates.

82.   Days before a large economic conference was due to start in Cairo, Egyptians were tantalized with a barrage of full-page newspaper advertisements and imposing billboards.

83.   Disappointment aside, members of the American delegation said, this conference is nothing like the Conference on Racism in Durban, where the United States walked out.

84.   Even as the Eurasian conference was under way, several countries were cracking down harder than usual on political opponents.

85.   First, the conference should not be a forum in which the government force-feeds its policy of nuclear development.

86.   For decades, the conference was the marquee league in college football.

87.   For Barry, the conference was essentially a scouting mission.

88.   For Marybeth Eliasson of Huntsville, Ala., the conference was a way to break out of her suburban housewife role.

89.   For some of the advocates and activists with mental illnesses, the conference was a chance to confront the people whom they perceive as their abusers.

90.   For the great disappointment at the Rome conference was the performance of the United States.