71.   Until new sponsors can be found, a lot of tournaments are having to combine to make it profitable.

72.   War and recession, Bush budget director Mitch Daniels insisted, have combined to make deficits inevitable.

73.   Years of gradual improvements in membranes, declining energy costs, growing water demand and fears about groundwater contamination are combining to make widespread commercial-scale desalting viable.

74.   You wonder if Ward and Childs can combine to make this work.

75.   But Starks, Blaylock and Marshall combined to make five of six free throws down the stretch to secure the win.

76.   Cheap and accessible medicine is particularly crucial in Africa, where poverty and tropical climates combine to make disease rampant.

77.   Disaster lurked everywhere on the first day of the U.S. Open, where excruciatingly narrow fairways, thick rough and tiny greens combined to make every hole an adventure.

78.   Fact and fiction, fantasy and focus happily intertwine in Scotland, just as the past and the present have combined to make the stunning Loch Lomond Golf Club.

79.   His striding, his arm-action, his carriage and the ease and rhythm of his running all combined to make him the super athlete he was.

80.   Ingredients that could be combined to make poison cyanide gas were found in a crowded subway station bathroom Friday.