71.   Dairy Mart filed voluntary petitions for bankruptcy in an effort to buy time needed to reorganize the company, Landry said.

72.   Critics say Samper is proposing the referendum as a way to buy time, amid a growing chorus of calls for his resignation.

73.   Diplomats here and officials in Washington said that Saddam, isolated diplomatically by even his friends, apparently decided to buy time and head off a U.S. attack now.

74.   Diagnosed with stomach cancer last year, he is on chemotherapy to buy time for a disease with no cure.

75.   Defense lawyers reasoned that by choosing sentencing by the judge, they would be able to buy time to research and prepare arguments for a lesser sentence.

76.   Douze, they said, bought time on Haitian radio stations and visited churches to advertise his practice.

77.   Dropping the initial offer could help Kerkorian buy time, investors and analysts said.

78.   Doling out only the vaguest details about the fictional job, he buys time to wriggle out of his fix.

79.   Economists say, though, that the economy minister, Domingo Cavallo, may not have bought enough time to undertake key reforms.

80.   Elway set up the pass with a play-action fake to Davis and bought Smith time to get open behind Falcons free safety Eugene Robinson by rolling to his right.