71.   He has, too, the electorally useful knack of reducing the complex issue to the comprehensible sound bite.

72.   He began to admire President Francois Mitterrand of France once he heard him speak in Paris without notes on a range of complex political issues.

73.   He impressed others in business and newsrooms with his grasp of complex issues.

74.   He invited Congress to make this judgment, saying it was better equipped than the judiciary to collect and evaluate the data bearing on such complex issues.

75.   He helped set the terms of the coming auction of the Rosneft state oil company and negotiated with Americans on oil projects in Russia, among other complex issues.

76.   He is expected to step lightly, appointing a special commission to examine private accounts and the numbingly complex financing issues.

77.   He was always more comfortable delving into complex issues than building a local political machine.

78.   He said the stem cell debate demonstrated that when lawmakers were given time to think through complex scientific issues, they generally came down in favor of the scientists.

79.   He wrote scores of books and papers on complex legal issues, taught at New York Law School, and never retired.

80.   His point is that people should not expect such a complex cultural issue to be settled in the flash of a presidential campaign.