61.   Lillie Mae and Bea came most every Sunday for dinner, and each meal was more depressing than the one before.

62.   Last year, and the one before that, those blokes got more air time than Pete Sampras.

63.   Maddux won the past four Cy Young Awards, Glavine claimed the one before that.

64.   Madison Square Garden, the current one and the one before it, offered plenty of bad sight lines for hockey.

65.   Messier had missed two full games and most of the one before that with a bruised and strained right shoulder.

66.   Measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, each peak has been higher than the one before.

67.   New York has had fighting mayors and crooked mayors, and the one before this one was extremely polite.

68.   On the road, he meets up with a series of disasters, each one worse than the one before.

69.   On this play, and on the one before that, the Penn State defenders were victimized while trying for an interception.

70.   On the other hand, the second half of the year was shaping up to be a poor one even before the terrorist assault.