71.   Inventories of goods at U.S. wholesalers decreased in December as rising holiday sales helped clear warehouses, government figures showed.

72.   Inventories of goods at U.S. wholesalers soared to the highest level on record in August as a slump in sales failed to empty warehouses, government figures showed.

73.   Inventories of goods at U.S. wholesalers soared to the highest level on record in August as sales slumped, government figures showed.

74.   Inventories of unsold goods piled up at U.S. businesses in May as sales stalled, further evidence economic growth slowed in the second quarter, government figures showed.

75.   Key federal statistical information was put on hold, forcing corporations to rely on guesswork rather than government figures.

76.   Last year, for example, consumer health care costs rose by the smallest amount in two decades, according to government figures.

77.   Last month government figures pointed to a decline in local economic activity, as income failed to meet expectations.

78.   Macedonian Interior Minister Pavle Trajanov told a Tuesday news conference that police have confiscated the drone plane while the government figures out what to do with it.

79.   Leicester has just been projected in government figures as the British city that will, in a decade, become the first with a nonwhite majority.

80.   Meanwhile, in a separate report, new government figures showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly grew at a slower pace in the fourth quarter than previously estimated.