71.   A proposal that would sharply boost federal timber payments to counties and encourage the Forest Service to cut more trees cleared its first hurdle Thursday.

72.   Agreement by the navigation board was the first hurdle.

73.   American countryman Arend Watkins abandoned after falling at the first hurdle.

74.   But getting an interview was only the first hurdle.

75.   But the first hurdle is finding a spot.

76.   Communists cleared the first hurdle Tuesday in their drive to stop Hungary from joining NATO.

77.   Goran Ivanisevic and Gabriela Sabatini, meanwhile, stumble at the first hurdle.

78.   Goran Ivanisevic and Gabriela Sabatini, meanwhile, stumbled at the first hurdle.

79.   He hit the first hurdle, stumbled and never regained his balance, making it only to the second hurdle.

80.   If accepted by the participating parties, the plan would clear the first hurdle on the course to negotiating a peace settlement for divided Northern Ireland.