71.   Not the least of them is the ability to survive extreme environmental stress, particularly the harsh winters in the temperate and polar regions.

72.   Oil companies say that many factors, including a harsh winter and higher demand, are to blame.

73.   On the import side, oil prices, which had risen following the harsh winter, have moderated as the weather turned milder and refineries caught up with demand.

74.   One of the rewards of a harsh winter is the prospect of a brilliant summer.

75.   Over the past two years she has bagged thousands of deer with nothing more than a harsh winter and a couple of droughts.

76.   Price rises in March for fresh eggs, fruit and vegetables far outstripped that of the index, a product of the harsh winter across northern Europe.

77.   Power and heat have been cut off, leaving residents exposed to the harsh Caucasian winter.

78.   Race relations are still a bit prickly in this city fashioned more than a century ago by rich white industrialists looking to escape the harsh winters of the Midwest.

79.   Reduced capacity at oil refineries -- attributed to cost cutting and a harsh winter -- has led to the highest gasoline prices in five years.

80.   Russia is being pushed to the brink, anxiously facing a harsh winter and fearful that it may lack the food, medicine and power to get by.