91.   Kvashnin barely escaped a missile attack on his own helicopter a year earlier when he flew to Chechnya to inspect troops.

92.   Last month, the securities firm said its second-quarter earnings more than doubled from a year earlier.

93.   Like the regulators of earlier years, the government has chosen to be active in this case rather than passive.

94.   Maggie was a man of his times, with a reputation in his earlier years for a triumphant record with Hollywood starlets that JFK was said to envy.

95.   Manufacturing activity about the same as a year earlier.

96.   Marshall contends he is much less the linguist that he was in his earlier years.

97.   Near his iBook laptop computer, August Adams still keeps a couple of shelves of action figures and toys from his earlier years.

98.   Most of the options exercised this year could have been exercised at a profit, albeit a smaller one, in earlier years.

99.   Mother Teresa was hospitalized several times last year with heart,lung, kidney and other problems, and also suffered ill health in earlier years.

100.   No such gain was reported in the earlier year.