61.   After Wood was hit hard for the second straight time last week at San Francisco, Giants second baseman Jeff Kent explained what he thought was happening to Wood.

62.   Aides say it has been especially hard for the president with his wife and daughter gone.

63.   All that can make it hard for a city to know what to do, Haanraadts said.

64.   Bureaucratic rules and loopholes sometimes make it hard for the police in one country to assist another country.

65.   Bureaucratic tangles and mistaken computer rejections made it hard for Ms. Walrond, who was covered by Medicaid, to get medical attention for her baby.

66.   But a variety of factors have made it hard for the agency to change quickly.

67.   But Andrews said that competition was so tough in the auto industry that it would be hard for an already weakened automaker like Nissan to improve its profitability.

68.   But dating can be hard for a single parent.

69.   But detractors say it would reduce the amount of music that could be stored on the disk and would be hard for recording studios to work with.

70.   But Alibek dismisses claims that milling the powder this fine is too hard for mere terrorists.