81.   Not surprisingly, most people have taken notice of Michael R. Bloomberg, the heavy-spending Republican mayoral candidate.

82.   On most evenings these days, four mayoral candidates are making the rounds of the boroughs, turning up at meetings of political organizations and civic groups.

83.   One of the biggest was an antitrust suit filed by real estate investor and former San Francisco mayoral candidate Clint Reilly.

84.   Peter Vallone, the speaker of the City Council and a mayoral candidate, said he called Bruno on Tuesday morning to urge him to pass the bills.

85.   Petition organizer Red McClary, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate against Bredesen, said he is convinced opponents have enough signatures to force a referendum.

86.   R. Eugene Pimcham, a former judge and mayoral candidate who is representing the older boy, disputed the charges.

87.   Ruth Messinger, the Democratic mayoral candidate, was watching the news the other night when a parent from Greenwich Village called her apartment with an urgent request.

88.   San Francisco, with its politically sophisticated and ideologically diverse voting population, rarely coalesces around a single mayoral candidate.

89.   Santiago Creel, a mayoral candidate from the center-right National Action Party, has called for a citywide referendum on the issue.

90.   Several bombs exploded and one mayoral candidate launched a mortar attack on his opponents.