71.   A narrowly divided Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a New Deal-era federal marketing program that requires agricultural companies to help pay for industrywide advertising.

72.   A number of colleges across the country were threatened with losing funds from the Perkins loan program, the federal work-study program and the Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants.

73.   A spokesman for Kassebaum said the senator had not had a chance to study the report but was pleased that the federal program seemed to be starting off well.

74.   A spokeswoman for Lugar said lunch and breakfast would continue to be federal programs.

75.   A stroll through a walkway paid for by federal environmental programs leads to Tower City, the main shopping center, which benefited from federal loans and grants.

76.   AARP spokesman Peter Ashkenaz last week accused Simpson of going after AARP because the organization supports federal spending programs aimed at the elderly, such as Medicare.

77.   Adjusting the Consumer Price Index is a better way to balance the budget than big cuts to public investments and other valuable federal programs.

78.   Addressing a Hispanic business association lunch, Bush, a Republican, dismissed most existing federal educational programs as failures.

79.   After the war, he went into business as a designer of custom-built homes and did consulting work for federal programs established to provide prefabricated housing for returning veterans.

80.   After portraying the Republicans as extremists bent on dismantling federal programs such as Medicare, President Clinton has risen to his highest approval ratings since taking office.