61.   The bill is considered a political hot potato, pitching smog-weary citizens against powerful lobby groups representing the trucking, oil and automobile industries.

62.   The Bush agenda, beholden to corporate lobby groups and favoring isolationism, serves to undermine Mr. Blair, who has invested so much in promoting globalization.

63.   The bank said recent attacks on allegedly racist whites, fueled by black affirmative action lobby groups, appeared rooted in disparities in wealth between the races.

64.   The governments of both countries fear domestic political problems that powerful farm lobby groups may raise.

65.   The lobby group arrived in Jordan Wednesday and is due to leave Friday.

66.   The pacifist movement is a powerful lobby group in Japan, and the slightest sign of heightened military might draws nervous protest from Asian neighbors.

67.   The opposition says its leaders were hiring the consultancy as a lobby group.

68.   The opposition says its leaders were hiring the consultancy, which was secretly working for the Zimbabwean government, as a lobby group.

69.   The National Indigenous Working Group, the leading aboriginal lobby group, wrote to farm and mine organizations Wednesday, urging last-ditch compromise talks.

70.   The pacifist movement is a powerful lobby group, and the slightest sign of heightened military might draws nervous protest from Asian neighbors.