71.   Walking along the wooden pier, Adam and Carolyn Greene of Rockville, Md., brushed off their two days in Norfolk as a minor inconvenience.

72.   Up in front of the locker room, Bowden brushed off such talk.

73.   When he suggested that youngsters ought to get a discount on fishing licenses, the council brushed off his idea.

74.   While Uncle Winston brushes off celebrity, family members tend to perpetuate it.

75.   Wilson brushes off such criticisms and has effectively used the illegal alien issue, which he links to fears about crime and jobs, to revive his campaign.

76.   Williams brushed off questions after a speech to the Los Angeles County Peace Officers Association at the Police Academy, which was honoring the LAPD in its annual luncheon.

77.   Whitman brushed off questions about her immediate future during a chance encounter with reporters after she taped some year-end radio messages in her communications office.

78.   World oil markets brushed off the production increase announced Wednesday, sending prices up.

79.   Yasser Arafat on Tuesday brushed off the Bush idea, saying the matter would be solved in elections.

80.   You never hear about Leno brushing off a fan in some diner or being rude to a waitress.