61.   Some had demanded Cianci retract his earlier statements about that aspect of the shooting.

62.   State Department officials remained critical of the proposal Monday but tempered their earlier statements.

63.   Still, Shields, standing alone with a few reporters after the question-and-answer session, backed off his earlier statements.

64.   Sunday, Giuliani repeated earlier statements about the intention of the New Hampshire trip, saying that he hoped to broaden the base of the Republican Party.

65.   That was a slight retreat from earlier statements that Soward would definitely play.

66.   That was in sharp contrast to earlier Rumsfeld statements supporting White.

67.   That followed earlier statements from the Rhode Island congressional delegation, two state attorney generals and the movie studio DreamWorks, all saying much the same thing.

68.   The account contradicted earlier statements from a defense command spokesman and the incoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

69.   The announcement, based on estimates of future stock prices, more than doubled the size of the foundation as projected by Empire in earlier statements.

70.   The company had argued that earlier statements by Lessig, an expert on technology issues who teaches at Stanford Law School, had been biased against Microsoft.