71.   Recent announcements give weight to the trend toward consolidation.

72.   Repeatedly, former federal prosecutors said that they simply would not give much weight to a settlement proposal offered by an outside third party, regardless of his stature.

73.   Republican leaders have damaged their own cause by giving such weight to this issue.

74.   Some in the caucus say that too much weight is given to the speaker anyway, to the detriment of the body as a whole.

75.   Some analysts say, however, that the Lesotho operation will only give new weight to the idea of South Africa as a regional bully.

76.   State regulation is just the first step in assuring for-profit companies give proper weight to patient concerns about quality.

77.   Strauss-Kahn said more weight should be given to employment and growth.

78.   That history has deservedly given greater weight to ethnic slurs spoken by American white people directed at American black people.

79.   That argument, however, does not give sufficient weight to the role of psychology in investing.

80.   The action gives new weight to the argument that both sides seem to believe that doing nothing may be far better than giving in to the other side.