71.   Bebear denied the reports.

72.   Barbara Thompson, a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney, Robert Morgenthau, said she could neither confirm nor deny the report.

73.   Baseball officials swiftly denied the report.

74.   Bautista and other economic officials denied the report and reaffirmed their commitment to a foreign exchange policy that economists describe as a managed float.

75.   Belichick emphatically denied reports that Bledsoe had a collapsed or punctured lung, or that he had a cracked rib.

76.   Beltrones denounced the paper and denied the report, which cited unnamed U.S. government sources.

77.   Berry denied those reports.

78.   Birck denied the report.

79.   Beltrones vehemently denied a report about the documents in The New York Times and moved to sue for criminal libel.

80.   Blinder declined to confirm or deny the report when he was contacted at home late yesterday evening.