61.   Rendell, a Democrat, hardly seems ready to relinquish his reputation for drawing a spotlight to cities as the economic engine of a metropolitan region.

62.   Several other proposed centers in the metropolitan region have failed, in some cases because local governments would not support them.

63.   Signals abound in the New York metropolitan region that the economy has heated up, especially in the last year.

64.   So, many companies have been forced to devise generous benefits to lure the top candidates to the metropolitan region.

65.   Such tuition programs have been in place in some suburban districts in the New York metropolitan region and across the country for years.

66.   Sun Oil Co. and Tosco Corp., two major suppliers of refined products to the metropolitan regions from Baltimore to Boston, experienced distribution and refining problems.

67.   Sunday morning, with less pomp but with insistent best wishes, the metropolitan region said goodbye to Pope John Paul II.

68.   Stratford was one of the guards who was overpowered by the detainees, largely illegal aliens taken into custody at airports in the New York metropolitan region.

69.   The anxieties in New Jersey are singular in the metropolitan region.

70.   The ban is not rigorously enforced, and there are no restrictions on owning ferrets elsewhere in the metropolitan region.