81.   Over at Northwest, though, the airline said Japanese sanctions would be no big deal.

82.   Russia says the aid never happened and the sanctions are humiliating.

83.   Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance, which represents American software companies, said the sanctions were necessary because piracy is surging.

84.   Sanctions are likely to apply to almost all types of steel goods and will affect the price of everything from automobiles to clothes hangers.

85.   Sanctions are likely.

86.   Sanctions have always been an American foreign-policy weapon.

87.   Sanctions are usually subject to a law of diminishing returns and have probably achieved all they can in moderating Libyan conduct.

88.   Sanctions may not be perfect and they are not always the answer, but they are often the only weapon.

89.   Sanctions are a famously blunt instrument, liable to give anybody but their intended target a bloody nose.

90.   Sanctions are not an all-purpose weapon, but President Clinton must use them forcefully here.