71.   After two games of the Eastern Conference finals, they keep falling a few hairs short of that Bunyanesque figure from Orlando and his young and unrattled teammates.

72.   All comparison figures from last year exclude profit from the operations of Electrolux Graenges, an aluminum unit, given to shareholders as an extraordinary dividend.

73.   But figures from the Board of Realtors provide clues.

74.   But figures from several cities show the magnitude of the drop in applicants for the police examination, the first step in becoming an officer.

75.   But he cited figures from conservative analysts that state that Americans spend upwards of five billion hours a year paying taxes.

76.   But her real strength lay in bringing together influential figures from both sides and providing a congenial atmosphere over dinner at the embassy residence for productive talks.

77.   But history will be kinder to Kennedy and McCarthy than to other figures from that turbulent week.

78.   But it conceded that it would be several weeks before it had figures from industry-standard testing to back up its claims.

79.   But SoCal is a different market altogether, and various sports figures from around the area debate the wisdom of the deal.

80.   But the big seed companies disputed some of those numbers and the department conceded that the figures from an earlier study were not entirely comparable.