61.   A soft money ban is also a prerequisite for deeper reforms, since the large amounts make special interests so powerful.

62.   A similar ban had been in effect inside the Irish republic.

63.   A total ban is long overdue.

64.   A three-judge appellate panel ruled last year that the ban was unconstitutional.

65.   Abortion opponents said the health exception was a loophole and said the ban would be impossible to prosecute.

66.   Abrupt as it seemed this fall, the logging ban was only a bow to the inevitable, a hastened end to a classic pattern of boom and bust.

67.   Advocates said the ban was a long time in coming.

68.   Advocates of allowing cameras in the courtroom say the ban is a misguided reaction to the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

69.   After all, the ban by definition is to be comprehensive.

70.   All this means the road to firearms sanity is a long one, and the partial ban was worth passing for tactical and symbolic reasons.