71.   IDEA-SIDE -- Congress closed loopholes last year in the national special education law and gave parents of disabled students more rights.

72.   Ideally, Congress should close the loophole while protecting privacy.

73.   In Connecticut, the General Assembly passed a law intended to close the loophole that allowed Meskill to take the Pequots job.

74.   In a sense, the pope was closing a loophole that had allowed some theologians to expound a more liberal interpretation on some issues than Rome ever has.

75.   In fact, he said, more loopholes should be closed so that the rich pay even a bigger share.

76.   In fact, it simply closes loopholes in the existing law limiting contributions to candidates in federal elections.

77.   In May, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution to close a loophole that the Belgrade government had exploited after an easing of sanctions last fall.

78.   In pushing to ban soft money, McCain and Bradley would try to close that loophole.

79.   In the House, he voted for gun control, closing tax loopholes on the rich, freedom of choice for abortion and civil rights measures.

80.   In the United States, the Clinton administration closed this loophole two years ago by giving the State Department greater authority to monitor and regulate arms brokers.