71.   Without that proof, a shareholder suit demanding that the board take more drastic steps would be quickly thrown out in court, they said.

72.   With youth smoking on the rise, the drastic steps are urgently needed, the government says.

73.   With summer coming and electricity prices soaring, many Californians are taking drastic steps.

74.   Yet TAAC membership invariably means a soft schedule, forcing Driesell to take such drastic steps as playing at New Mexico without the standard return date in Atlanta.

75.   Yet he did not appear willing to take more drastic steps to prevent the exhibition from going forward as planned Saturday.

76.   Yet it is significant the NBA owners have taken such drastic steps because commissioner David Stern has staked his reputation on keeping his league free of labor blemishes.

77.   An obscure U.N. agency said Thursday it has undertaken drastic steps so that it can survive reform at the world body.

78.   But Egypt and Jordan, the only Arab countries with peace treaties with Israel, have indicated such drastic steps would not be taken.

79.   But such a drastic step would harm trans-Atlantic relations and could sink efforts to launch a new round of trade negotiations, a key EU trade priority.

80.   But the strike has been controversial among doctors, with some arguing it was too drastic a step.