71.   Mrs. Whitman has embraced the idea that school districts should be given more equal treatment.

72.   Municipal governments and National Football League franchise owners warmly embraced the idea last year in St. Louis, Oakland, Charlotte and Baltimore.

73.   NBC has embraced the idea because, like other networks, it is looking for shows that reach out to viewers by altering standard storytelling formats.

74.   Not all brokerages are ready to embrace the idea of on-line trading.

75.   Nor is it hard to see why both candidates were quick to embrace the idea.

76.   Palestinian leaders, who have long insisted that they need international protection in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, immediately embraced the idea.

77.   Paxson believes that cable TV providers eventually will embrace the idea of carrying all his stations.

78.   People here are embracing the idea.

79.   Powell on Monday embraced the idea of an international conference aimed at stopping the violence and restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.

80.   Quarterback Nate Hybl, for one, embraces the idea of seeing Woolfolk running plenty of pass routes.