71.   But the fact remains that public schools will continue to educate most Americans well into the next generation and probably beyond.

72.   But the fact remains that the two candidates are probably farther apart on the environment than on any other issue.

73.   But the fact remains that wine prices are appallingly high.

74.   But the untidy fact remains that the people have spoken, in a vote that was nowhere near close.

75.   Despite the blizzard of wrenching stories that have appeared over the last four months, some basic facts remain obscure.

76.   Despite the sudden improvement in September, the fact remains that Houston has one of the highest food stamp denial rates in the state, Caballero said.

77.   Either way, the fact remains that whatever we are doing to destroy Mideast terrorism, the chief terrorist threat against Americans, has not been working.

78.   FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover attacked it, but the facts remained.

79.   For all our bellyaching, the fact remains, as it has for decades, that Americans are among the least taxed of industrial peoples.

80.   For all the bumbling of the government, the fact remains that the Weavers were a virulent, hateful lot.